| FIG. | PAGE |
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| | The “Barometz,” or “Tartarian Lamb.”—After Joannes Zahn | [Frontispiece] |
| [1].— | The Vegetable Lamb Plant.—After Sir John Mandeville | 3 |
| [2].— | Portrait of the “Barometz,” or “Scythian Lamb.”—After Claude Duret | 9 |
| [3].— | Adam and Eve admiring the Plants in the Garden of Eden. The “Vegetable Lamb” in the background.—Fac-simile of the Frontispiece of Parkinson’s “Paradisus” | 19 |
| [4].— | Rhizome of a Fern, shaped by the Chinese to represent a tan-coloured Dog, and laid before the Royal Society by Sir Hans Sloane as a Specimen of the “Barometz,” or “Tartarian Lamb.”—From the ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ vol. xx., p. 861 | 25 |
| [5].— | Rough Model of a tan-coloured Dog, shaped by The Chinese from the Rhizome of a Fern, and submitted to the Royal Society by Dr. Breyn as a Specimen of the “Scythian Vegetable Lamb,” or Borametz.—From the ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ No. 390 | 31 |
| [6].— | The “Borametz,” or “Scythian Lamb.”—From De la Croix’s ‘Connubia Florum’ | 37 |
| [7].— | A Cotton-pod | 61 |
