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[Anton]

OK, so the "Oculus Christi" has been identified as Inula after all. The problem is that "Oculus Christi" in BNF Latin 17844 does not look like Inula Helenium at all. Inula helenium has yellow flowers and broad leaves. Inula Oculus Christi is closer in terms of leaves, but it has yellow flowers still. While I would admit that blue in the VMS and red in BNF Latin 17844 may be variants of the same thing, they both do not have anything in common with yellow. Since the "eye of God" is associated with at least three plants even in the same herbal, I think further attempts should be made to identify the plant in BNF Latin 17844, 101r.