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The illustration on this folio depicts a plant with small, five-petaled flowers in shades of light blue and pale yellow. The leaves are green with serrated (toothed) edges, and the root system is rendered in a brownish-red pigment, showing a thick taproot with smaller fibrous roots branching off. This style of illustration is typical of 15th-century "herbal" manuscripts, which were used to identify medicinal plants, though this specific species has not been definitively identified by botanists.
fachys ykaley qol qky dain odaryley cphas dary cphas dain
dchor koand otain dchor chor ctor dchor da olly polland da
ottey ctor otain dain otey olland otte dchor dain
ottytter a tain dchor otor olly kor dy
pchor at cecey qollor gkorar osakorar ftaar et lly dain
odar ctor horycoda coda dain otey dchor salla
qo ctor ctor otteey dain ottar kor dain
lound dain polloro rolls dary kor dy
dain oty ftai cphy dary
oty pchor ctor cta kally
getor cccolly ottattain
olland ftey ctor
The layout of the text suggests a descriptive entry, with the writing curving around the top of the plant's flowers and foliage. The word "dain" and its variations appear frequently, a common characteristic of the Voynich script's repetitive structure.