THREE-COLORED VIOLET

A detailed botanical woodcut illustration of a Viola tricolor plant (wild pansy or heart's ease). The image shows several slender, branching stems emerging from a central fibrous root system. The leaves are ovate or oblong with deeply notched or lobed edges. Multiple flowers are visible, exhibiting the characteristic five-petaled form of the violet family, some shown in profile and others facing forward. Fine hatching is used throughout the illustration for shading and detail.

...drunk The text begins with the fragment "-tata," completing the word "potata" (drunk/consumed) from the previous page's discussion on remedies: the stems are weak, thin, angular, and jointed original: "geniculati," meaning having knee-like joints or nodes, a palm’s length in height. The flowers sit upon somewhat long stalks pedicles|the small stalks that support individual flowers; they are similar in form to the Purple Violet, and for the most part equal in size,

Vocabulary: Three-colored violet, stems, flowers, stalks, purple [violets], jointed

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