96 VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS 
Fia. 104.—Watermelon (Citrullus vulgaris, Gourd Family, Cucurbitacee). 
Vine bearing leaves, flowers, and very young fruit; a, staminate 
flower; b, pistillate flower. (Nicholson.)—Plant an annual herbaceous 
vine; leaves hairy or smooth; flowers yellow; fruit greenish with pale 
markings, smooth, globular or oval, sometimes 60 cm. long. 
Fic. 105.—Watermelon, fruit. (Nicholson.) 
