In post #8 you asked which part of the plant the big bulbous thing was.
It's probably a tuber/bulb, like a turnip or something along those lines.
The fact that there are more roots and bumps coming out of the end is normal. Tubers often have additional root structures and there are numerous roots that get little bumps on them. Sometimes the bump is part of the root (like the nitrogen-fixing nodules on some plants), sometimes the bump is an infestation (which are common to specific plants).
Saxifraga granulata has a tuberlike part (not quite like a turnip, but a swelling at the base) and then a lot of little brown nodules scattered around it and extending from it. It also has rounded leaves like in the VMS drawing. If you stretched out the parts at the base to show them more clearly, it might turn out something like the VMS drawing.
There's also a tuberous Ranunculus that looks a bit like the VMS drawing (including the leaves) except that it's a basal whorl, not odd-pinnate.
The overall drawing has some similarities to Corydalis cava, which they used to call Fumaria bulbosa or Fumo terra in the old manuscripts.
The fact that the rootlike things twine around and connect is not natural, they don't usually do that, but again, maybe the lower part is stylized or mnemonic.
It's probably a tuber/bulb, like a turnip or something along those lines.
The fact that there are more roots and bumps coming out of the end is normal. Tubers often have additional root structures and there are numerous roots that get little bumps on them. Sometimes the bump is part of the root (like the nitrogen-fixing nodules on some plants), sometimes the bump is an infestation (which are common to specific plants).
Saxifraga granulata has a tuberlike part (not quite like a turnip, but a swelling at the base) and then a lot of little brown nodules scattered around it and extending from it. It also has rounded leaves like in the VMS drawing. If you stretched out the parts at the base to show them more clearly, it might turn out something like the VMS drawing.
There's also a tuberous Ranunculus that looks a bit like the VMS drawing (including the leaves) except that it's a basal whorl, not odd-pinnate.
The overall drawing has some similarities to Corydalis cava, which they used to call Fumaria bulbosa or Fumo terra in the old manuscripts.
The fact that the rootlike things twine around and connect is not natural, they don't usually do that, but again, maybe the lower part is stylized or mnemonic.