Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — A Curiosity of Nature. [ARTICLE]

A Curiosity of Nature.

There is a very curious plant to be fiind growing in the vicinity of Orov le, Cal The fruit is yellow and a 1 tie larger than an egg, and appears 1) e an eiapty bag rather than a solid, tough iticontains a watery substance wUch evaporates or dries up when the frit is fyuy ripe, leaving a sort of gas inLie the Iruit which is lighter than air\ The inflated, bag-like fruit flips bac; and forth in the wind until it linallytreaks loose from its slender stem, sailJup into the air, rising 100 or more feetftnd finally disappearing over the hi!!.