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.
via File:Vegetable lamb (Lee, 1887).jpg – Wikimedia Commons.
