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The barometz or vegetable lamb.

Originally from: Lee, H. 1887. The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: a Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant, to Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade. S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London. (Redrawn from Johann Zahn's Specula Physico-Mathematico-Historica Notabilium ac Mirabilium Sciendorum, in Qua Mundi Mirabilis Oeconomia,...Norimbergae, 1696)

Scanned from: Braggins, John E. & Large, Mark F. 2004. Tree Ferns. Timber Press, Inc.

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current12:04, 17 April 2011Thumbnail for version as of 12:04, 17 April 20112,955 × 3,760 (1.54 MB)Mgiganteushigher resolution scan
08:13, 2 December 2006Thumbnail for version as of 08:13, 2 December 2006902 × 1,172 (301 KB)Mgiganteus== Description == The barometz or vegetable lamb. From: Lee, H. 1887. ''The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: a Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant, to Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade''. S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington,

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