BLACKTHORN 



Syrphidae, Muscidae, Bibionidae), Coleoptera (Nitidulidae), Lepidoptera 

 ( Vanessa}. 



The fruit is edible, and the seed is dispersed by animals. 



The Sloe is at home on sand soil, and is a sand plant, but is also 

 a lime plant, loving limestone, and a humus-loving plant requiring 

 humus soil. A fungus, Puccinia pruni, causes early fall of the 

 leaf. 



Eriophyes similis is a gall that attacks it. Many larger fungi grow 

 on it: Stereum, Podosphcera, Eutypella, Polystigma, Ploivrightia, Poly- 

 porus, Hypocmis, Entomospo- 

 riiun, Corynum, Cladosporium. 

 It is also galled by Cecidomyia 

 pruni and Biorhiza tenninalis ; 

 and the beetles Otiorhynchus 

 picipes, Monochetus sulcatiis, 

 Magdalinus pruni, Rhynchites 

 auratus, the Hymenopterous 

 insects Andrena bucephala, 

 Eriocampa adumbrata, Lepi- 

 doptera Black Hairstreak 

 ( Thecla pruni), Scarlet Tiger 

 (Callimorpha dominula), Yel- 

 low Tail Moth (Liparis auri- 

 flua), Grey Dagger (Acrony- 

 ata psi), White -letter Hair- 

 streak ( Thecla W. album ), 

 Brown Hairstreak (T. betulcz}, 

 Short -cloaked Moth (No la 

 cucullateUa)) &c., and the 

 Homopterous Capsus capil- 

 laris, the Homoptera Psylla pruni, Trichopsylla Walkeri feed on it. 



Primus, Pliny, is Latin for plum-tree, and the second Latin name 

 refers to the spinose character. 



The names it goes by are: Blackberry, Blackthorn, Blackthorn- 

 May, Buckthorn, Bullens, Bullies, Bullins, Bullister, Cat's-sloes, Egg- 

 peg Bushes, Hedge Picks, Hedge Speaks, Heg Peg Bushes, Hep, 

 Winter Kecksies, May Blackthorn, Quick Scrog, Skig Slaathorn, 

 Slacen-bush, Slan, Slaunbush, Slea, Sloey, Slon, Slone Bloom, Sloo- 

 bush, Slines, Snag, Snagbush, Winter Picks. 



Quick or Quicks are young black or white thorn for planting in 

 a hedge. The name Sloe for the fruit is extended to the plant itself, 



BLACKTHORN (Prunus spinosa, L.) 



