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. 
