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pressed down the flower bursts open. It has thus an explosive motion, 

 much as in Dyer's Green weed. 



Furze is dispersed by ants, and also by the plant itself, the seeds 

 being thrown out of the pods by a catapult movement. 



It is a sand-loving plant, requiring a dry, sandy soil; but it is also 

 a humus-loving plant, needing a humus soil to some extent. 



It is galled by Aspkondylia ulicis. Pseudococcus aceris and Placop- 

 thorus rhododactylus also attack it. 



The Thysanoptera Tkrips ulicis, Sericotkrips stapkylmus, and the 



Fi'RXK (I'li'.v eiiropceits, L.) 



moths Grapholitha tilicetana, Bntalis grandipennis, Anarsia spartiella, 

 Gclcclna walvclla, the Homoptera Livella ulicis and Aphis ulicis feed 

 on it; and so do the beetles Philorhinum sordidnm, Micrambe vini, 

 Ti marc ha violaceonigra, Luperus nigrofasciatus, the Homoptera Delto- 

 cephalns coronifcr, Livilla itlicis, and A. rylana, the Heteroptera 

 Piezodorus lituralus, Heterogaster urticcc, Dictyonota crassicornis, 

 Ilypsitylns bicolor, Asciodema obsoletum, &c. 



Ulex is Pliny's name, but what he intended for it is wrapped in 

 obscurity; the second name applies to its European distribution. 



Furze is called Prickly Broom, Firsun, French Furze, Frez, Fur, 

 Furrys, Great F"urze, Furzen, Furzen- bushes, F'uzz, Gorse, Gorst. 

 Goss, Gost, Ling, Lwyce, Ruffet, Thorn, Broom, Vuz. Whin, and 

 Whins. 



