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• VMS f65r: a "spiked" plant

  Stefan Wirtz_2 > 15-04-2025, 02:48 PM

     
  
  As remarked several times already by others, this full plant drawing is rather unique as it shows just three words.
  
  The last word  alag = alayae or alaye ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , first comment) 
  comes close to today's russian алыи ("alyy"), which means "Scarlet" (the desease).
  
  Most slavic languages are using somehow adapted `scarlet´ in vocabulary, but some, like Russian, have own descriptions for it which may be old enough to appear in VMS.
  I have reason to assume the three vords mean "effective against scarlet".
  
  Medieval herbal treatment suggestions were thyme, sage and yellow avens and surely some more. 
  
  This plant is surely not thyme or sage.
  But yellow avens, Geum urbanum or maybe Geum aleppicum, are quite good-looking here, enough images at the internet. Both are often plagued by gall wasps, which produce thickened root stems.
  
  Creeping avens (Geum reptans) produces networking roots with several knots, but they look still different from drawing. 
  Yes, "these roots": the pictured roots are not as nice and fitting as Filipendula, but that plant is not on f65v.
  
  The draftsman made 2 mistakes: outer blossom leafs, the "spikes", should be rotated a bit, they are not exactly behind an inner blossom leaf when their number is not higher than 5.
  Otherwise I understood that the outer leafs are always limited to 5, while inner leafs may be more than 5. Drawing shows some 6+6 combinations.
  
  Following is creeping avens, the left blossom is still flowering, all other began fruiting.
  
  So this is my suggestion for 65r.
  
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