I don't know if I would call the monkshood root "on point".
The VMS has a very long segmented tap root or rhizome with a curled tip and a knob (the curled tip might be mnemonic). Monkshood has a shorter root that is quite thick (and sometimes double-thick) at the point where it joins the stem. The VMS 3v root isn't drawn this way.
Also, monkshood has alternate leaves. Most of the leaf attachments on the VMS plants are correct as to alternate or opposite (I don't know if they all are but the ones that are identifiable are quite accurate most of the time). VMS 3v has opposite leaves.
Monkshood has a flower spike. The VMS plant does not have a flower spike, it has two discrete large ovoid terminal shapes (which are reminiscent of sporophytes).
Monkshood flowers have an indented portion that is lighter. The VMS plant has a broad flattened end that is lighter (again, more like a sporophyte or other form of seed capsule than a flower).
I'm not saying all aspects of the VMS plants are dead accurate, but the illustrator did have a certain way of drawing things that was more accurate than many drawings of the time, and I don't think a VMS flower spike would have been drawn this way.
The VMS has a very long segmented tap root or rhizome with a curled tip and a knob (the curled tip might be mnemonic). Monkshood has a shorter root that is quite thick (and sometimes double-thick) at the point where it joins the stem. The VMS 3v root isn't drawn this way.
Also, monkshood has alternate leaves. Most of the leaf attachments on the VMS plants are correct as to alternate or opposite (I don't know if they all are but the ones that are identifiable are quite accurate most of the time). VMS 3v has opposite leaves.
Monkshood has a flower spike. The VMS plant does not have a flower spike, it has two discrete large ovoid terminal shapes (which are reminiscent of sporophytes).
Monkshood flowers have an indented portion that is lighter. The VMS plant has a broad flattened end that is lighter (again, more like a sporophyte or other form of seed capsule than a flower).
I'm not saying all aspects of the VMS plants are dead accurate, but the illustrator did have a certain way of drawing things that was more accurate than many drawings of the time, and I don't think a VMS flower spike would have been drawn this way.