Re: VMs: Similar Plant VMS and The Herbal of Dioscorides Pedanius

[Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Larry Roux wrote:
> The three flowers at the top, the rows of pointed leaves and the oval
> root.  Of course the F17r version is missing the intermediate rows of
> flowers/or leaves along the sides.  I just saw it while thumbing through
> verious herbals and this one hit me as "I have seen this before".

I think the leaves are single in the VMs, but in threes, with intevening
somethings as you say, in the HDP.  It kind of reminds me of something,
too, though I'm not sure what.  A large allium?  But not the leaves.  A
large fritillary?

Anyway, I suppose you want a plant that has the association of involving
an underground being, e.g., a mandrake, though I assume this isn't a
mandrake, which I seem to recall has a distinctive forked root.  Anyway,
the theme does seem similar, if the details of the plant vary in a purely
botanical sense.

A mandrake would be labeled, one would assume, mandragora or something
like that.
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