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	Curious Creatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This stalk was flexible, and allowed the lamb to graze, within its limits; but when it had consumed all the grass within its reach, or if the stalk was severed, it died.
		This lamb was said to have the actual body, blood, and bones of a young sheep, and wolves were very fond of it—but, luckily for the lamb-tree, these were the only carnivorous animals that would attack it.
		lamb, on account of its resembling a lamb in all its limbs, from head to foot; its hoofs are cloven, its skin is soft, its wool is adapted for clothing, but it has no horns, only the hairs of its head, which grow, and are intertwined like horns.
	www.harvestfields.netfirms.com /ebook/02/041/34.htm (772 words)

	Vegetable Lamb
		The tale of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary comes from the Middle Ages, a traveler's tale from the far east.
		It is said that the plant bent to let the sheep graze on the grass beneath it, and that when all the grass was gone, the sheep dropped from the plant and ran off, the tree dying.
		The 'body' of the Vegetable Lamb is the root of the plant.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/v/vegetable_lamb.html (184 words)

	Vegetable Lamb : morningmystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Vegetable Lamb The tale of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary comes from the Middle Ages, a traveler's tale from the far east.
		The fable of the Lamb of Tartary, variously entitled "The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary," "The Sythian Lamb," and "The Borometz," or "Borametz" is a curious one.
		The lamb was contained within the fruit or seedcapsule of the plant, which would burst open when ripe to reveal the little lamb within it.
	www.morningmystery.com /viewpost_293095.asp (637 words)

	Vegetable Lamb of Tartary -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary is a mythical plant used by (additional info and facts about medieval) medieval thinkers to explain the existence of an imported fabric: (Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers) cotton.
		It was known under various other names including the Sythian Lamb, the Borometz, and the Borametz.
		The plant was believed to grow (Woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat) sheep as its (The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant) fruit.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/ve/vegetable_lamb_of_tartary.htm (97 words)

	Barmotez
		The barbary lamb, or barmotez, is sometimes known as the vegetable lamb or tartary.
		According to Hebrew legend, the barbary lamb is a lamb like creature that is half vegetable.
		Barbary lamb is considered a delicacy as its meat tastes like fish, and its blood like honey.
	barmotezlamb.tripod.com /id9.html (91 words)

	Light reading: Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When I first read about the vegetable lamb of Tartary last year, my main sensation was amazement that I hadn't ever heard of it before.
		It was variously called 'The Borometz' (this being the Tartar word for lamb), 'The Scythian Lamb', and the 'Vegetable Lamb of Tartary'.
		"These so-called 'lambs' were considered from the fourteenth century to be a zoomorphic plant (one having the attributes of an animal).
	jennydavidson.blogspot.com /2004/05/vegetable-lamb-of-tartary.html (360 words)

	Legendary creature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some — such as the dragon, the griffin or the unicorn — have their origin in traditional myths and have at one time been believed to be real creatures.
		Others were based on real creatures, originating in garbled accounts of travellers' tales; such as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, which supposedly grew tethered to the earth (and was actually a type of fern).
		Even the traditional unicorn may have come from garbled stories about the rhinoceros or narwhal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legendary_creature (312 words)

	Barbary Lamb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		They are attached to trees with short stems and their hindquarters are hidden deep within the foliage.
		The flesh of Barbary Lambs is said to taste like fish and their blood that of honey, and their bones are often used for rituals, including divination and prophecy.
		The Barbary Lamb was actually cotton, but since Europeans didn't know about cotton, they interpreted the cotton to be wool, a fabric familiar to them.
	www.geocities.com /z_mythica/creatures/b/barbary_lamb.html (128 words)

	Lamb Tree
		A lamb that is grown from a plant.
		The lamb can graze within the length of the cord, but when it eats all the vegetation within reach, it dies.
		Barbary Lamb, Barmotez, Tartary lamb, Vegetable lamb, or Lycopodium Barometz
	www.eaudrey.com /myth/lamb_tree.htm (194 words)

	Museum of Garden HistoryVegetable lamb
		The vegetable lamb is an example of the curios collected by people throughout history.
		The myth of the vegetable lamb was first known in the Middle and Far East in the 11th century; with its 'body and four legs' it is thought to resemble a small lamb, hence the name.
		In fact, it is the root of a species of fern sculpted to resemble a lamb (and occasionally a dog).:
	www.cix.co.uk /~museumgh/veglamb.htm (200 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With the head and body of a rooster and the tail of a snake, the basilisk was said to be able to kill a person with its gaze.
		The vegetable lamb, a mainstay of museums in the 17th century, was allegedly half plant, half animal: it had the shape of a little lamb, but grew from a stem.
		The vegetable lamb, a mainstay of museums in the seventeenth century, was allegedly half plant, half animal: it had the shape of a little lamb, but grew from a stem.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0801436095 (776 words)

	Legend of the Lamb-Plant
		Similar ideas were represented by bushes and flowering plants, sometimes by combining more than one plant or species on the same stylized plant drawing, sometimes the drawing or figure would be stylized into animal or human shapes, such as the tree of life and the tree of knowledge.
		Sloane exposed his specimen as the stem or rootlet of a fern, artificially and cleverly manipulated to look like a lamb, thus dealing what appeared to be a crushing blow to this fable.
		The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary; A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant.
	www.nal.usda.gov /pgdic/Probe/v2n3/legend.html (1546 words)

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		The vegetable Lamb of Tartary, also named Barometz and Lycopodium barometz and Chinese lycopodium, is a plant whose shape is that of a lamb bearing a golden fleece.
		It is found in the king's house and prognosticates the outcome of illnesses; for if it refuses to gaze in the face of a sick man, that man will die, but if it looks him in the eyes it draws the sickness into itself and flies away into the sun where the sickness is consumed.
		Even their flesh, wool, skin and excrements are of great usage in the regions where vegetation and general life is sparse.
	www.aloreth.com /bestiary.doc (22216 words)

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		The relevance of this alternate version is that the “vegetable lamb” was widely reported throughout the world in earlier centuries.
		Similar accounts of the “Vegetable Lamb of Tartary,” which was also known as the Boramez, became widely accepted.
		This extraordinary case, unthinkable several years ago, serves to illustrate that discussing laws of creatures such as the dirt-mouse and the vegetable lamb, aside from their theoretical value of Torah study for its own sake, may as yet prove to have practical ramifications.
	www.aishdas.org /toratemet/dongchong.html (8461 words)

	[MR] Cotton cloth
		Greetings unto the tavern: I cannot argue when and where cotton first came into Europe, however I love the story of the Œvegetable lamb¹.
		Supposedly Nearchus, an officer of Alexander the Great wrote an account of an Indian shrub bearing bunches of wool from which natives make garments.
		And ŒHenry Lee in his work, The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary; A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant (London, 1887), claims that this curious myth actually originated in the early descriptions of the cotton plant.
	www.atlantia.sca.org /pipermail/atlantia/2003-October/012211.html (766 words)

	The Vegetable Lamb (from legendary animal) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Vegetable Lamb (from legendary animal) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Medieval travelers believed it came from a gourdlike fruit that grew on a tree.
		It was believed that when the fruit ripened, it contained a little lamb.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-196423?tocId=196423&ct=gen1 (83 words)

	The Age Of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest by Holland Thompson eBook by BookRags
		The East Indians, with only the crudest machinery, spun yarn and wove cloth as diaphanous as the best appliances of the present day have been able to produce.
		Alexander the Great introduced the “vegetable wool” into Europe.
		The fable of the “vegetable lamb of Tartary” persisted almost down to modern times.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/2900/15.html (519 words)

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		During the 14th to 17th centuries the vegetable lamb of Tartary was a much sought after creature.
		It grew from the soil on a stalk and had soft wool and tender flesh.
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	www.uleth.ca /artgallery/exhibitions/2003/SpoonfulSugar/McTrowe.html (421 words)

	my little pasture
		Maybe I'll make a sheep icon from a photo, since I have lots of sheep photos from Norway.
		So, I finished The Grapes of Wrath, made my little vegetable lamb icon (which didn't come out very well, but oh well) and changed my LJ colors to something a bit greener and sheepier.
		I want a vegetable lamb now fangirls vegetable* lambs* I'm going to make an icon tomorrow, after I finish The Grapes of Wrath.
	www.livejournal.com /~kari_chipmunk (3003 words)

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