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# Identification:
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#   * Title: "Snakes in Roots"
#   * Page: f49r = GA (Rene) = p095 (Stolfi)
#   * Folio: f49
#   * Panels: f49r
#   * Bifolio: bG1 = f49+f56
#   * Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke)
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#   Brumbaugh p4, Harper's `potato'
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# Attributes:
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#   * Language: A (Currier)
#   * Hand: 1 (Currier)
#   * Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
#   * Subject: herbal
#   * Colors: blue,red,green,yellow (Reeds)
#   * Plant: 97 (Petersen)
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# Description:
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#   A large plant, flush against the right and bottom edges,
#   and reaching almost to the top margin.
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#     * Root: four dark teardrop-shaped tubers.
#     * Stem: single, straight vertical, with dark streaks.
#     * Branches: not visible.
#     * Leaves: roundish, with scalloped margins.
#       Painted solid dark. Stalk: long and drooping.
#     * Flowers: three open flowers and many buds, sprouting from two
#       sinuous, drooping branches; ome uncolored, most painted dark.
#       Stalk: short. Chalix: spherical, with a short trumpet
#       of fused sepals ending with a scalloped edge.  Petals: 
#       longish in the open flowers, resembling a diver's paddle foot with three 
#       fingers, painted dark; folded into the chalyx in 
#       the immature buds. Core, stamens, and pistils: not visible.
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#   Tunneling through the tubers are two animals that could be
#   snakes or earthworms: legless, with long, sinuous bodies
#   ending with a rounded tail.  Their head resembles that of 
#   a sea horse, and both have a row of dots along the back.
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#   There are three paragraphs (with 3.0, 7.6, 9.6 lines).
#   The first one, squeezed above the plant, is left- and 
#   (roughly) right-justified.  The other two, that lie 
#   between 1/4 and 3/4 of the page's vertical extent, 
#   are left-justified, and follow the plant's outline at right.
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#   Rene [04 Apr 1999] remarks that the folio is very stiff.
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# Comments:
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#   The head and snout details of the snakes resemble those of the
#   "baby dragon" in f???.  There is a resemblance also to the fishes
#   in the Pisces symbol (f???) and the birds in the "Garden of Eden"
#   page (f???).
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#   It is not clear how the "snakes" are related to the plant.
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# References:
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# Last edited on 1999-04-16 15:13:51 by stolfi