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plenty. The petals are five, or they may be regarded as three 

 with two of them two-cleft. Stamens are five and the fruit is 

 quite as interesting as the flower, an oblong capsule that grows 

 irritable as it becomes mature, when a slight pressure will make 



Exploded Capsule of Impdtiens ; 

 Enlarged 



it explode and send the enclosed seeds flying. The technical 

 explanation of the matter is that the capsule breaks up into five 

 spiral coiled valves, expelling the seeds. 



The Tawny Touch-me-not is somewhat variable in color, 

 sometimes deeply freckled with red-brown over a deeply golden- 

 yellow ground, other times much paler. The plant also pro- 

 duces cleistogamous flowers late in the season. 



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