Indeed, according to the early and uncultured belief of certain communities, there are various kinds of animal-producing trees, accounts of which are very curious. Among these may be mentioned the vegetable lamb. To quote Sir John Maundeville, who in his ‘Voyage and Travel’ has recorded many fabulous sights:—“There grows a manner of fruit as though it were gourdes; and when they are ripe men cut them in two, and find within a little beast, dressed in flesh, bone and blood as though it were a lamb without wool—and men eat both the fruit and the beast, and that is a great marvel.” Its local name is the Scythian or Tartarian Lamb; and, as it grows, it might be taken for an animal rather than a vegetable production. It is of the genus Polypodium; root decumbent, thickly clothed with a soft hoal of a deep yellow hue. A Chinese nickname is “Rufous dog.” Fluid is said to flow from it when cut or injured, which originates in the fact the fresh root when slit yields a tenacious gum akin to the blood of a virgin, a crimson sap one might infer tastes delectable as honey.