Plant of Folio 2v

[-JKP-]

I try not to assume too much.   :-)

The species of Viola that is in the VMS was not considered to have very much medical benefit. Most of the time, they preferred Viola odorata, which has heart-shaped leaves, not palmate leaves. Tragopogon was also not considered to have much medical benefit. It shows up occasionally in medieval herbals but most of them did not include it.

In other words, the purpose of the VMS plants might not be medical. It might be something else (that doesn't mean it can't include medical plants, but those might be a subset of the overall VMS plan).