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Identification

  Title: "Water lily"
  Page: f2v = AD (Rene) = p004 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f2
  Panels: f2v
  Bifolio: bA2 = f2+f7
  Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke)

Attributes

  Language: A (Currier)
  Hand: 1 (Currier)
  Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
  Subject: herbal
  Plant: 3 (Petersen)
  Colors: green (Reeds), green (Rene)

Description

  One plant centered on page. 

    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.

  Rene notes [04 Apr 1999] that there is a Roman 'fe' or 'fc' 
  above the <or> of the first word of the second paragraph.

Comments

  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 suggested Nymphaea candida
  (a.k.a. Nymphaea alba; water lily, seerose)

References

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