very striking from its tall very white stems, and its copious white 
flowers produced in May and June, which are succeeded by the 
good-sized and well-flavoured orange or rather deep amber- 
coloured fruit in the early autumn. We feel sure that this hand- 
some and agreeable fruit would be worth cultivating for the 
table. 
Duscr. The stems spring from the ground in clusters or fas- 
cicles, like our common Raspberry (to which group of Rudus it 
belongs), but attains a height of ten to twelve feet, erect, branched 
with many small slender side-branches, the epidermis everywhere 
clothed with a very white pulverulent coat (easily removed by 
passing the hand over it), aculeated ; the aculei scattered, uniform 
in shape, all from a broad base subulate, decurved ; those of the 
stem stout and strong, those of the branchlets small and slender. 
Leaves extremely variable, even on the same plant, always green 
and subglabrous, downy and white beneath, in shape sometimes 
cordate, unequally and irregularly lobed, at other times regu- 
larly three-lobed ; sometimes compound and ternate, the lateral 
lobes generally narrow, ovate, and sessile, intermediate or ter- 
minal one broader and larger and petiolulate, sometimes, but 
more rarely, pinnated with five leaflets, all inciso-serrate, pin- 
nately and reticulately veined. Peduacles about two inches long, 
sometimes binate, more generally fascicled at the ends of the 
small lateral almost herbaceous branchlets, drooping, simple and 
bearing one, or branched and bearing two or three (rarely more) 
white flowers. Calyz subhemispherical, cut into five broad acu- 
minated downy lobes. Petals obcordate, spreading, close-placed, 
and imbricating with their edges. Stamens small, forming a 
dense ring round the ovaries. Fruit as large as a Raspberry, but 
deep amber-colour ; when young, almost enclosed in the erect 
lobes of the persistent calyx ; afterwards, the calyx spreads, and 
the globose fruit is wholly exposed to view. 
Fig. Fruits :—nat. size. 
