Protologue Description: SCIRPUS OLNEYI Gray, var. contortus, n. var. Some or all of the spikelets twisted or bent, linear, elongated (1-2, rarely 2.4 cm. in length); involucral leaf prolonged (3-7 cm.) and, like the stem, not so stout as in the species. Brackish marsh on the coast, Milford, Conn., E.H. Eames, no. 5847. Type in herb. Eames: co-type in herb. Gray.