(447.) 
In thickets and sandy soil, mostly near the coast, North 
Carolina to Cape Canaveral and Cedar Keys, Florida. 
Flowers during the spring, matures its fruit in the fall. 
Descriptions of new North American Thorns. 
By N. L. Brirton. 
Cratarcus Brownll n. sp. 
A shrub, glabrous throughout. Spines slender, 2-3 cm 
long; leaves obovate to oval-obovate, obtuse or obtusish at the 
apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, thin, irregularly crenate 
with distinctly rounded teeth, slender-petioled, 4-6 cm. long, 
some of them occasionally flabellate ; corymbs 5-8 cm. broad, 
8-15 flowered; pedicels slender; bracts linear, very glandu- 
lar; flowers about 1.5 cm. wide. 
Type from Buchanan, Va., collected by Hon. Addison 
Brown, May 19, 1892; collected also by Dr. John K. Small, 
on Kate’s Mountain, near White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., 
May 16, 1892. Both specimens in the herbarium of Colum- 
bia University. 
CrararEcus EGGERTII n. sp. 
Thorns 3-6 cm. long. Foliage sparingly pubescent when 
young, glabrous when mature; leaves ovate-orbicular, often 
as broad as long, dull green above, pale beneath, sharply 
and irregularly serrate or somewhat lobed, mostly truncate 
or subcordate at the base, acute or acutish at the apex, slender- 
petioled, 5-12 cm. long ; pedicels and calyx glabrous or nearly 
so ; flowers 2—2.5 cm. broad ; corymbs several-flowered ; bracts 
very glandular; fruit subglobose, large, sometimes nearly 2 
cm. in diameter, glaucous. 
Type from St. Louis, Mo., in woods in clay soil, collected 
by H. Eggert, May 9 and October 9, 1887; specimens in 
herbarium of Columbia University. The following specimens 
have also been studied : 
Missouri: Courtney, July 12, 1892, B. F. Bush; Dodson, 
B. F. Bush, July 18, 1899; Monteer, B. F. Bush, July 26, 
1899. 
Kansas: Riley Co., J. B. Norton, April 27, 1895. 
