Japan Flora: Rhizomes decumbent or ascending, densely covered with pale brown fibers; culms 50-70 cm. long, nodding above; leaf-blades 3-4 mm. wide, flat, soft; spikes 4 or 5, the upper 2 or 3 staminate, approximate, narrowly lanceo­late, 1-2 cm. long, obscurely tawny, the others pistillate, 2-5 cm. long, long-peduncled, pendulous, cylindric, the lower ones distant, the bracts leaflike, short-sheathing; pistillate scales nar­rowly ovate, acuminate and short-awned, pale tawny; peri- gynia longer than the scales, 4.5-5 mm. long, ellipsoidal, dis- tincdy 3-angled, light yellowish green, somewhat lustrous, membranous, with 2 costal nerves, long-beaked, with a hyaline, 2-toothed tip; stigmas 3, very long, persistent. May-July. Grassy places and open woods in mountains.

Honshu (centr. distr.).