Do Herbal A and Herbal B correspond to differences in imagery?

[RenegadeHealer]

I'm working on a project currently trying to put the Herbal B bifolios back into their original order. I suspect the nine sheets of parchment which contain Herbal B pages (8 bifolios and one foldout the equivalent size of two bifolios) originally composed 3 quires: 2 of the standard 4-bifolio / 8-folio / 16-page quires, and then the 8-page foldout (now f94~95) either by itself, or with two additional bifolios which have since been lost. Whether these 3 quires composed 1, 2, or 3 books is not yet clear to me. What I'm doing is printing out a thumbnail image of each Herbal B page, and pasting these onto pieces of cardstock folded down the middle, to model each of the Herbal B bifolios. Then I plan on laying them out on a table in front of me, rearranging them and playing around with them, looking for clear thematic similarities or a clear progression of images, before stapling them together into proposed quires.

I don't think there are many different kinds of plants pictured in Herbal B. Although there is a great variety of leaf and root shapes, there is a strange but unmistakable similarity to most of the plants that appear alongside Currier B text. At first glance, I'm seeing the complete life cycle of a single, highly fantastical type of plant. But I'm seeing potentially another layer to this progression of plant images, in which they are humans and/or animals in a story, with the arrangement of their parts, the shapes of their leaves and roots, and the apparent stage of the plant's life cycle standing for the attributes or actions of the story characters. Or something like this.