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Identification

  Title: "Snake roots"
  Page: f49r = GA (Rene) = p095 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f49
  Panels: f49r
  Bifolio: bG1 = f49+f56
  Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke)

  Brumbaugh p4, Harper's `potato'

Attributes

  Language: A (Currier)
  Hand: 1 (Currier)
  Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
  Subject: herbal
  Colors: blue,red,green,yellow (Reeds)
  Plant: 97 (Petersen)

Description

  A large plant, flush against the right and bottom edges,
  and reaching almost to the top margin.

    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.

  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.

  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.

  Rene [04 Apr 1999] remarks that the folio is very stiff.

Comments

  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???).

  It is not clear how the "snakes" are related to the plant.

References

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