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# Identification:
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#   * Title: "Water lily"
#   * Page: f2v = AD (Rene) = p004 (Stolfi)
#   * Folio: f2
#   * Panels: f2v
#   * Bifolio: bA2 = f2+f7
#   * Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke)
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# Attributes:
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#   * Language: A (Currier)
#   * Hand: 1 (Currier)
#   * Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
#   * Subject: herbal
#   * Plant: 3 (Petersen)
#   * Colors: green (Reeds), green (Rene)
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# Description:
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#   One plant centered on page. 
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#     * Root: long straight rhizome, covered with rough bristles/scales
#       and round stalk scars, each scar having two or three dots.
#     * Stem: single, vertical, slightly bent, shooting out from middle 
#       of rhizome; dark painted. 
#     * Branches: there is the stub of a lost branch at mid-stalk.
#     * Leaves: a single large leaf, horizontal, shaped like a very fat C,
#       with smooth rim. Painted solid dark.
#       Stalk: short.
#     * Flowers: one white flower, pointing almost straight up.
#       Stalk: long, light colored, with a darker vein; part of it
#       obscured by leaf which should be behind it.  Chalyx: well-drawn,
#       with thick tongue-shaped sepals, light colored.  Petals:
#       well-drawn, flaring, lily shaped, serrated edges, white
#       underpaint.  Core: not visible.  Stamen: long, with a few short
#       hairs.
#
#   Two paragraphs (with lines, respectively), left- and
#   right-justified: one at the top, interrupted by the single flower,
#   and one just below mid-page, interrupted by the main stem.
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#   Rene notes [04 Apr 1999] that there is a Roman 'fe' or 'fc' 
#   above the <or> of the first word of the second paragraph.
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# Comments:
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#   The plant looks quite natural and well-drawn.
#
#   Presumably, the flower stem was in front of the leaf in the
#   original drawing; but the dark overpaint covered it. The original
#   outline of the leaf may have been obscured, too.
#
#   The leaf shape suggests it is a water plant. With that assumption,
#   the choices are quite few. Rene [???] proposes ¶{Nymphaea:candida}
#   (a.k.a. ¶{Nymphaea:alba}; water lily, seerose).  Michael Roe [1]
#   mentions another variant, ¶{Nymphoides:peltata} ("Nymphaia" in
#   Dioscorides, "al qulqas ahli" in the Arabic translation).
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# References:
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#   [1] Michel Roe's Voynich site, page about plants.
#   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mrr/voynich/plants.html
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# Last edited on 1999-04-16 15:10:01 by stolfi