09-01-2017, 12:22 AM
(08-01-2017, 09:57 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Jkp- interesting. so that would indicate live specimens are being used as models and that the plants are to be used to identify real life specimens.
Yes, some of them. I'm absolutely certain of it. One only has to look at the root of the "water lily" to know the illustrator was observant and looked at a real plant. It includes the new-growth scales on the right, the leaf scars on the left, the spiral pattern in which the leaf scars grow, even the texture on the nub when the leaf falls off. It's very accurate and maybe the first ever botanical representation of a rhizome.
Many of the VMS roots are symbolic or mnemonic, but this one is naturalistic.