This is a very handsome Bramble, striking at first sight from the shaggy crimson glandular hairs with which it is so plentifully beset, and from which it derives its name (phoenix, red, lasios, shaggy). The leaves resemble those of the Raspberry, but are of a silvery white on the under surface. The flowers are in terminal panicles, the pedicels and elongated calyx-lobes densely clothed with long crimson hairs, each tipped with a small globular gland. The fruit is about the size of a small Cherry, clear orange-red, shorter than the persistent calyx-lobes. It is noteworthy that while the fruit is unripe and green the calyx-lobes fold over it, and thus protect it from the incursions of birds, while the viscid hairs keep off undesirable insect visitors, but when the fruit ripens the sepals unfold, spreading horizontally, forming a flat dish, on which the fruit is presented for the attraction and appreciation of birds, who, after regaling themselves, secure unwittingly the perpetuation of the species by ejecting the seeds.

The plant is a native of Japan, and for a specimen of it we are indebted to the Rev. Canon Ella-combe, in whose garden near Bristol, it proves to be quite hardy. - Gardeners' Chronicle.