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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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Date and time of digitizing | 12:27, 17 April 2011 |
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