Ashe : Some Xi:\v Pennsvi.vaxian Thorns. 397 



Crat.kgus cicur n. sp. A small slender tree 2-3 m. in height, or 

 generally a tall virgate shrub with thick, rough black cross-checked 

 bark like that of a black haw, the short slender ascending branches 

 with smooth light gray bark. Twigs glabrous, very slender, purple- 

 brown, like the trunk, unarmed. Leaves very thin and soft, glabrous, 

 dark green above, paler beneath, oblong or oblong-ovate, 5-8 cm. 

 long, 4-5 cm. wide, acute at apex, cuneate, or rounded at base, 

 sharply and finely serrate, 4-6 pairs of short lateral spreading lobes, 

 5-7 pairs of slender arcuate primary veins, spreading or drooping on 

 the purple petiole 1-2 cm. long, turning a dull puri)le or bronze and 

 falling or withering on the tree during the first half of October; 

 petiole narrowly winged, roughened with stalked glands. The flowers, 

 which appear the last of May in small compound glabrous corymbs, 

 are about 16 mm. wide and borne on erect or ascending pedicels; 

 calyx obconic, glabrous, the narrowly triangular serrate lobes reflexed 

 at'ter anthesis ; stamens 5-8, small ; styles generally 4. The fruit, 

 borne in few-fruited, mostly simple, short-pedicelled clusters, is pyri- 

 form, about 13 mm. long, and 11 mm. thick, light reddish-brown or 

 russet, with much yellow, green, and red, rounded at the apex, narrowed 

 at the base, capped by the persistent lobes borne on the projecting 

 tube, the lobes narrowly triangular, serrate above the middle, reflexed, 

 becoming dull purple or wine colored with the ripening fruit ; cavity 

 deep and narrow, hairy at base ; flesh firm, pale yellow, or green, 

 sweetish; seeds generally 4, apical, thick and coarse, 7-8 mm. long, 

 deeply sulcate on the rounded back. The fruit ripens in October and 

 falls after the leaves. 



Sunny woods. New River, Ashe county, North Carolina, W. \V. 

 Ashe ; Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, J. A. Shafer and W. W. Ashe. 



Crat.kgus Shaferi n. sp. A bushy shrub 1-2 m. in height, with 

 numerous ascending branches from near the ground ; twigs slender, 

 glabrous, chestnut brown, sparingly armed with slender purple-brown 

 thorns 4-5 cm. long. Leaves membranaceous, at first villose on petiole, 

 and midrib above and veins beneath, at length glabrate, dark green 

 above, paler beneath, ovate or nearly orbicular, rounded or truncate at 

 the base, abruptly acute at the apex, 4-6 cm. long, 3-5-6 cm. wide, 

 2-4 pairs of short lateral notches, sharply and finely serrate ; petiole 

 short, stout, 1-2 cm. long, roughened at apex with several dark 

 brown glands. The flowers, which appear about the middle of May 

 when the leaves are one half grown, in glabrate or somewhat pubes- 



