# # Identification: # # * Title: ??? # * Page: f3v = AF (Rene) = p006 (Stolfi) # * Folio: f3 # * Panels: f3v # * Bifolio: bA3 = f3+f6 # * Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # * Language: A (Currier) # * Hand: 1 (Currier) # * Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # * Subject: herbal # * Colors: b,green,red (Reeds) red(root),green(stem),striking_blue_indigo(pods) (Rene) # # Description: # # One plant, flush against the bottom and right margins of the page. # # * Root: single long root, consisting of six "telescoping" conical # segments, dark painted, with flat light-painted top. Tip of root # is bent into a hook and ends with a small round knob. # * Stem: long, straight, vertical, with a dark "shadow" stripe # crudely painted along its length. # * Branches: none. # * Leaves: paired, disk shaped with two "tails", two "arms", and a # swallowtail-shaped "head", with long outward-curved tips. # Stalks: medium length, thin. # * Flowers: two, very unequal size, growing out of the tip of the stem. # Stalks: short, thin, like leaf stalks. Calyx: heavy, swollen, # shaped like a sweet potato cut in half, dark painted. Petals: # single row, light, semicircular, very small. Core: flat, # light-colored, filled with dots; looks like a pepper shaker. # # Two paragraphs (unit µ{P}) with 6.0 and 7.5 lines, both in the top # half of the page. The text is left-justified and follows the plant # outline on the right. # # Comments: # # The plant looks quite strange. The telescoping root is hard to # explain. The leaf shape is unusual but not impossible. The bloated # flower chalices are very strange; they may have been drawn from # pressed and dried specimens. # # References: # # # Last edited on 1999-04-15 04:04:49 by stolfi