Most certain plant ID's?

[Linda]

I have lots of mint types too. None of them were called to mind with this pic, the flowers just dont look right somehow. However the trait of growing roots from the stem is certainly analogous.  I have lost my own plant files temporarily so i don't know what i had down for it but i like Prunella vulgaris because it looks so much like it, flowers too, especially the interspersed use of colour, the trick is the white areas have colour too just not anything like blue. But i could see drawing it that way and being close enough mnemonically to remember what you were thinking about. i see the tops of the flowers denoting the dried colouration, and gives more definition to the flower than the blue blobs at least. 



Re the Celosia, i actually posted more wavy versions than i intended. This variation of the plant is a fasciated version of the spicata ones, hence the curly edges. As it fasciates more, the curlier it gets. That is not what is drawn, you are right. I think maybe something more like this:



The second one shows some spicata and hints at plumosa forms too. It depends where the fasciation occurs. Some fasciated dandedions have one big head, some have multiple heads. So i could see one with the middle between the curly edges being similar to the fasciated stem section.

Ever since i read that beetroots developed around the time of the vms, the inclusion in a bunch of drawings of plants including something that looks like beetroot seems completely understandable. Evidently parsnips were what borscht was made of before that, it was the leaves were eaten for millenia.  Hmm... What if the roots fasciated? So i could see more of an earlier version of Celosia being depicted. Are there any early paintings or drawings of the curly celosia? Naked ladies... i was going to say maybe someone had colchesine, and made these new forms with it. Could be why they had naked ladies on their minds all the time.