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BRITISH GALLS 
Fungi 
Diptera 
Coleop- 
tera 
Diptera 
Thickened yellow spots on the stems, leaves, and fruit, 
containing the pale brown aecidiospores. Teleutospores 
on Juniper us communis. 
Gymnosporangium clavariaeforme Jacq. 546 
Syn. Roestelia lacerata Tulasne. 
Plowright, p. 233. Connold, Plant Galls, fig. 126. 
LEGUMINOSAE 
Genista anglica Linn. 86. Needle Whin. 
Terminal leaves tufted, swollen, forming a yellowish 
hairy mass about the size of a hazel nut. Sometimes the 
flowers and buds are also thickened and distorted. Larvae 
gregarious, white at first, then pale rose colour. July and 
August. M. E. 
Perrisia genisticola F. Low 547 
Houard, No. 3349. 547# 
547 ^ 
Genista tinctoria Linn. 76. Dyer’s Green Weed. 
Terminal leaves and flowers swollen. See No. 547. 
Perrisia genisticola F. Low 548 
Connold, Plant Galls, fig. 120. Swanton, Knowledge, 549 
June, 1910. Houard, Nos. 3368, 3369. 
Internodes at the extremity of the twig shortened and 
much thickened, forming globular fleshy galls about 8 to 
10 mm. in diameter; the lateral shoots are also often 
atrophied and deformed. Plurilocular. Larvae yellowish- 
white, movements jerky. M. E. Imago, April, II. 
CONTARINIA MELANOCERA Kieffer 550 
Houard, No. 3372. 
Ulex europaeus Linn. 112. Common Gorse. 
Young stems with rounded or ovoid swellings about 
the size of a large pea, longitudinally striated. Unilocular, 
with a single larva. M. G. Spring, II. (Text, Fig. 6.) 
Apion scutellare Kirby 551 
Connold, Plant Galls, fig. 116. Swanton, Knowledge, 
June, 1910. Houard, No. 3399. 
Bud swollen, forming a green, fleshy, ovoid or conical 
gall, about 5 mm. high by 3 mm. in diameter, with a large 
internal cavity. 
Asphondylia ulicis Verrall 552 
Verrall, 1875, p. 224 Trail, 1873, p. 172. Connold, 
Plant Galls, p. 245. 
