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The fruit is a legume or pod which opens along 
the sutures. In the “ Bird’s Foot” the pod is con- 
stricted between the seeds and then breaks up into 
one-seeded portions. The pod in Ulex explodes, the 
valves twisting back spirally expelling the seeds to 
a distance. In some the pods are winged; animals 
devour others; some seeds have a fleshy aril, and in 
Mimosa and Medicago the pods are hooked and 
spirally coiled in the latter. 
The seeds are well provided with material with 
which to start life. 
THE Broom (Cytisus scoparius). 
This handsome shrub or bush is found in every 
English county and in Wales, except in Cardigan 
and Flint. In the Highlands it is found at a height 
of 1000 feet. 
As arule Broom is found upon heathy land, being 
at home on a barren, sandy or gravelly soil, growing 
naturally in the same situations as Furze. But, like 
the latter, it is often planted. Many modern planta- 
tions are rendered the more ornamental by a sprink- 
ling of Broom amongst Blackthorn and other scrub 
or bush plants. It is frequently to be seen covering 
the embankments of a railway. 
Broom is a spreading bushy shrub, with a habit of 
its own, being a typical switch plant with long 
filiform branches. 
It is tall and graceful, with numerous erect, 
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