Hoffmann’s var. 1, a leaf of which is represented in his
t. S3. f S. b., is perhaps the doubtful plant mentioned in
English Flora, p. 167, as known among basket-makers by
the name of French Willow. To this the S. triandra of
Flora Londinensis also probably belongs, although the stipules
are drawn less arched and rounded than they usually
occur. In the plant in question they most resemble those
of S. Hoffmanniana, but are not so large, and the leaves are
similar to those of S. triandra in shape, but smaller. The
twigs are in some degree angular, but not so remarkably as
in S. amygdalina.
The stipules of S. triandra are not in general so large,
nor so much rounded, as they are represented in t. 1455.
S. acuminata of Hoffmann, to which the trivial name
Hoffmannia was first given by Bluff and Fingerhuth (Com-
pend.FI. Germ. v. S. p. 568), was intended, we doubt not, to
comprise S. cinerea, S. oleifolia, and S. aquatica of Smith.
W. B.
