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VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS 



Fig. 104. — Watermelon (Citntllus ruUjaris, Gourd Family, Cucurhitacece). 

 Vine bearing leaves, flowers, and very young fruit; <i, staminate 

 flower; h, pistillate flower. (Nicholson.) — Plant an annual herhaceou.s 

 vine; leaves hairy or smooth; flowers yellow; fruit greenish with pale 

 markings, smooth, globular or oval, sometimes 60 cm. long. 



Fig. 105. — Watermelon, fruit. (Nicholson.) 



