Scythian LAMB, a kind of moss, which grows about the roots of fern in some of the northern parts of Europe and Asia, and sometimes assumes the form of a quadruped, so called from a supposed resemblance in shape to that animal. It has something like four feet, and its body is covered with a kind of down. Sir Hans Sloane read a memoir upon this plant before the Royal Society, for which those who think it worth while may consult the Transactions (No. 245, p. 461.) Mr Bell of Antermony, in his very instructive "Account of a Journey from St Petersburg to Ispahan," informs us that he searched in vain for this plant in the neighbourhood of Astrakan, and that the more sensible and experienced amongst the Tartars treated the whole history as fabulous.