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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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