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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 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

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