132 Rhodora [JULY 
A SALIX ROSTRATA Hyprip?— At Franklin, Connecticut, there is a 
singular staminate willow, which the writer found May 14, 1917. 
It is a shrub 4 meters high, made up of five or six widely branching 
stems, springing from a common root, and all blooming profusely. 
_ Each flower has two filaments, which are united so as to appear as one, 
and hairy for their entire length. The two anthers bear copious 
pollen. The leaves seem to be good Salix rostrata. The other willows 
in the vicinity are S. discolor, S. sericea and S. cordata, species which, 
like normal S. rostrata, have two glabrous and distinct filaments. 
The union of two hairy filaments suggests affinity with S. purpurea, 
since our other willows with hairy filaments have the filaments free. 
In its other characters, the shrub does not betray the influence of 
any of our willows, with hairy filaments, and the modification of the 
inflorescence may not be the result of hybridization. One would 
hardly expect to meet with S. purpurea in a remote swamp of a Con- 
necticut hill town. Specimens have been deposited in the Gray 
Herbarium.— R. W. Woopwarp, New Haven, Connecticut. 
Vol. 20, no. 234, including pages 101 to 1 16, was issued 11 June, 1918. 
