In the hemlock spruce forests of Japan it has been found 
by Professor Sargent growing freely in dense shade, a 
circumstance which suggests that the species might make 
a pleasing feature in damp shady spots in localities where 
the difficulty in regard to spring frosts need not be 
dreaded. 
Description.—Shrub, 3-10 ft. high. Stem closely armed 
with prickles, creeping below, leafy at the top. Leaves 
petioled, palmately 5—9-lobed, 6-10 in. across, lobules 
pinnatifid and irregularly toothed, nerves prickly ; petiole 
3-8 in. long, prickly. lowers umbellate ; umbels globose, 
arranged in dense racemes or panicles; rachis prickly 
and densely hairy ; bracts suborbicular, fimbriate, de- 
ciduous. Flowers shortly pedicelled, pale green. Calyx 
small, 2 lobes spinescent, the others very short. Petals 
5-6, valvate, ovate or ovate-oblong, 4 in. long, acute and 
- ineurved at the tip. Filaments glabrous, 4—} in. long ; 
anthers oblong, 7; in. long. Styles 2, free, diverging, 
js in. long. Fruit obovoid, sulcate, somewhat com- 
pressed, }—} in. long, pink, tipped by the persisting styles ; 
fruiting pedicels } in. long. 
Fig. 1, a bract; 2, portion of a bract; 8, flowers; 4, calyx; 5 and 6, stamens ; 
7, sketch of an entire plant :—all enlarged except 7, which is much reduced. 
