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Identification

  Title: ???
  Page: f5r = AI (Rene) = p009 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f5
  Panels: f5r
  Bifolio: bA4 = f4+f5
  Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke)

Attributes

  Language: A (Currier)
  Hand: 1 (Currier)
  Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
  Subject: herbal
  Colors: green,b (Reeds), different_greens (Rene)
  Plant: 8 (Petersen)

Description

  One plant, horizontally centered, reaching only 3/4 up the page.

    Root: five unbranched roots, mostly horizontal.  Each root looks
      like an earthworm, light-colored with a few dark dots, with a 
      short and fat swelling about 4/5 of the way to the tip.
    Stalk: straight, vertical, slightly tapered, uncolored(?).
    Leaves: a single ring of large, lance shaped leaves, closely spaced, 
      attached mid-stem with no stalks. The leaves curl down in a semicircle,
      like an umbrella, until they almost touch the stem again; their thin
      tips curl further into hooks. Dark overpaint.
    Flowers: one, at tip of stem, pointing up. 
      Stalk: medium, thin, uncolored(?); extension of stem.  Chalix:
      thimble-shaped, partial dark overpaint.  Petals: long, hair like,
      drooping.  Core: hemispherical, like a bubble.

  Two paragraphs (unit P) with 3.6 and 2.5 lines, both above the plant,
  left- and right-justified.

Comments

  The plant looks very strange but not impossible.  The oddest
  details are the position of the tubers, the shape and disposition of
  the leaves, their curled tips, the "shaggy" flower.

References

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