VMS f65r: a "spiked" plant

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Why are the 3 words on .f65r not half an inch lower down ?   There is plenty of space there.

As you may have noticed, I have this idée fixe that the drawings and the text of the VMS have been extensively restored many decades after it was written, by careful or sometimes not-so-careful retracing of the faded originals; and, in this process, many drawings were "improved" with spurious details.  

So my explanation for that page, in particular, is that the leaves of the original drawing were smaller and did not encroach in the label.

But  i may also be that, when the Scribe started writing the label at that place and orientation, he did not realize that it would run into the plant.

All the best, --jorge