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I did not add the paint "to make it match". I added the paint because if you look at the painting styles overall, it is clear that the painter (the sloppy one, as there are at least two painters and one was more careful) regularly slapped it on without pushing the paint carefully out into the points. It's not just true of this drawing, it's true of many of the drawings.

I am not trying to "make" the plant match Actaea, I don't CARE which plant it is, I only care about rational explanations.

I am drawing on my knowledge of ALL the VMS plant drawings and the stark difference between the painting and the drawing to make this suggestion. Whoever DREW the plants knew plants and often drew them with greater accuracy than many plant drawings of the time. They're not perfect, but they are pretty good. The painting is not as good. Some of it (the "sloppy painter") is quite bad.

You posted some Renaissance- and modern-era drawings. Here are some medieval drawings.


Medieval Drawings

This is how they drew Urtica (nettle) in the Middle Ages. The delicate tassels are always at the leaf nodes, as they are in real life:

   


This is how they drew Actaea (baneberry). The leaves are odd-pinnate (like the VMS) and the flower and berry tassels are toward the top of the plant:

   

The VMS drawing is not consistent with medieval Urtica drawings. It is consistent with medieval Actaea drawings.