Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 535
nt touch-me-not, because the plant is, indeed, nervously im-patient when its seed pod is touched, and respondswith a snap that throws the seeds to a distance ofmany feet. It is startling, on first acquaintance,to have the seed pod pop —go to pieces —doubleitself up into a lot of spirals, and throw… … I HE 1ODS OF THE TOUCH-ME-NOT AS WE FINDTHEM IN LATE AUTUMN. may be imagination, but it has always seemed tome that Impatiens is particularly fond of anystructure that crosses a brook, as a bridge or afence, especially an old stone wall. At the edgeof the bridge, or on one of the projecting…
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