Re: Venus' Looking Glass...?

["Dana F. Scott" <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:

> Hi Dana,
>
> > > BTW: do you know which page z3610549.jpg is? (It's the page that starts
> > > with "the gallows of a thousand eyes")
> >
> >    Where did you see the reference to z3610549.jpg?
>
> It's a monochrome VMS image I downloaded from the Net, but Google's image
> search can't find it - so neither can I. (Bah!) :-(
>

Bernd Neuner has the answer. I still don't understand where the .jpg comes
from? I get the following (probably won't be able to access from this e-Mail)
when accessing this VMS monochrome image. Interestingly, I thought of this
folio (f42v) too when first seeing a picture of  Triodanis perfoliata.

http://highway49.library.yale.edu/Scripts/db2www.exe/PHOTONEG.d2w/ShowSingleITem?PPID=39002036105493

Triodanis perfoliata: (Specularia perfoliata, L.)
http://www.missouriplants.com/Bluealt/Specularia_perfoliata_page.html
http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/triodanisperf.html
http://knps.org/Wildflowers/venus.htm
http://2bnthewild.com/plants/H163.htm
http://deepcnet.usi.edu/biology/twinswamps/Triodanis_perfoliata.htm
http://home.steuber.com/Sarah/flwrs/Htmls/Triodanis_perfoliata_.html
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/mi02/mi02006.jpg
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/dcs420/c/hdw20049901s.jpg
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/dcs420/c/hdw20049902s.jpg
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/dcs420/c/hdw280299zs.jpg

Regards,
Dana Scott :-)

>
> FYI: it has the many-eyed gallows in the top left, but the bulk of the page
> consists (on the right) of a plant with bare roots at the bottom, five
> leaves (or petals?) in the middle, and what may be some kind of thorn (?)
> at the top, extending out of the. It's on the left of a folio (hence the
> lack of a number).
>
> When I saw the five-petalled flower of Venus' Looking Glass (both in your
> image and others), I was stylistically reminded of this page, but don't
> know its foliation reference. :-(
>
> Thanks, .....Nick Pelling.....