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[MichelleL11]

Thanks Michelle, so it turned out very plain - Lunaria is Lunaria

As a side note, there's the remarkable context of days "belonging" to plants. Quite probably this is reflected in the VMS somehow. Here it says of days of week belonging to plants, maybe there's also been a concept of days of month or days of year belonging to plants (?)

Yes - but in typical fashion for the times it was not done consistently.  Which is of course tough for a cipher approach - that is, the constant reminders that spelling was “optional.” Just like “alphabetical” was loose and can’t be relied upon.

I also just realized that although there is discussion of “seven herbs” there are only six in the text.  What happened to Saturday’s plant? 

I have to wonder if such looseness with “rules” in written language and communication at the time is the source of the often observed phenomena with the Voynich - both in the text and the illustrations - that for every rule underlying a proposed pattern there is always an exception.  I suppose that can be seen as part of its charm but l find it nothing short of maddening.  l admittedly lack the cultural context that could smooth over the inconsistencies so in a way its a shortfall on my end but it still is frustrating and certainly concerning - taken out to its logical conclusion of irreparable information loss.

Bottom line here - we’ve lost a plant in this recipe.  Oh well, didn’t want to fly anyway - LOL.