88 SEEDS AND FRUITS 



shoot out as a Watermelon seed may shoot out from between 

 one's pressed fingers. {Fig. 89.) In case of the Impatiens called 

 "Touch-me-not" and the "Squirting Cucumber/' tissues within 

 the pod take up water and swell so much that the pod finally 

 explodes and scatters the seeds as shown in Figure 90. 



