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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FIG. PAGE

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