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Henry Lee wrote The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, subtitled A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant, to which is added a sketch of the history of cotton and the cotton trade. The contents list The Fable and its Interpretation and The History of Cotton and its Introduction into Europe, among others.
The text says the plant-lamb was reported to have bones, blood, and delicate flesh, and to be a favourite food of wolves, though no other carnivorous animal would attack it. The text says the legend met with almost universal credence from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The text says the story of a wonderful plant which bore living lambs for its fruit, and grew in Tartary, seems to have been first brought into public notice in England in the reign of Edward III., by Sir John Mandeville. The text says Æneas Sylvius Piccolomini, afterwards Pope Pius II., sought in Scotland for the goose-bearing tree.
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