7 6 FLOWERS OF THE HEATHS AND MOORS 



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

 much as in Dyer's Greenweed. 



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 Asphondylia ulicis. Pseudococcus aceris and Placop- 

 t horns rhododactylus also attack it. 



The Thysanoptera Thrips ulicis, Sericothrips staphylinus, and the 



FrRZE (Ulex euro/Hens, L.) 



moths Grapholitha ulicetana, Butalis grandipennis, Anarsia spartiella, 

 Gelcchia malvella, the Homoptera Live Ha ulicis and Aphis ulicis feed 

 on it; and so do the beetles Philorkinum sordidum, Micrambe vini, 

 Timarcha violaceonigra, Luperus nigrofasciatus, the Homoptera Delto- 

 cephalus coronifer, Livilla ulicis, and A. ryttrna, the Heteroptera 

 Piczodorus lituratus, Heterogaster urtictf, Dictyonota crassicornis, 

 I fypsitylns 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, FYench Furze, FYez, F"ur, 

 Furrys, Great Furze, F"urzen, Furzen- bushes, Fuzz, Gorse, Gorst, 

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

 Whins. 



