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Identification

  Title: "Tennis racket plant"
  Page: f5v = AJ (Rene) = p010 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f5
  Panels: f5v
  Bifolio: bA4 = f4+f5
  Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke)

Attributes

  Language: A (Currier)
  Hand: 1 (Currier)
  Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
  Subject: herbal
  Colors: red,green,b (Reeds), red_flower_with_3_blue_2nd_flowrs (Rene)
  Plant: 9 (Petersen)

Description

  One branching plant that takes up the lower 3/4 of the page.

    Root: two dark-painted potato-shaped tubers next to the stem,
      with a few medium-length "mousetail" roots shooting from them.
    Stem: straight and vertical, light under(?)color, with a fantastic
      loop at the top. The stem's base is wrapped with a short uncolored
      sheath.
    Branches: several, diagonal, mostly straight.
    Leaves: four lobes with serrated edges, naturalistically curved.
      each lobe has a central vein. Stalks: medium-short, thin, look like 
      branches. Light coulored, many of them with crudely overpainted
      dark splotches.
    Flowers: several, medium-small, mostly upright, some drooping. 
      Stalk: short, sometimes bent by weight.  Chalyx: rounded, light
      colored, like a rose's but on the fat side.  Sepals: short and
      pointed, light colored.  Petals: half a dozen, small,
      tongue-shaped, spread out; dark overpaint almost but not
      quite fills their outline.

  One paragraph (unit p) with 5.5 lines, above the plant, left-
  and right-justified.

Comments

  The plant looks fairly normal, except for the fantastic
  loop in the stalk.  Leaves and flowers are very naturalistic,
  but some are spoiled by the crude dark overpaint. 

References

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