[split] Viola manuscript images

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You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is an example from a later book where the white violet does exhibit the habit of the VM plant.

The book references Dioscorides' "Leukoion". You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. presents two variants of Leukoion side by side. The one on the right (Leukoion Thalassion) appears to be more similar to the VMS illustration, but the flowers are quite different. Dioscorides says that the Romans called the plant "viola alba marina" (marine white violet), but the flowers are painted blue. Anyway, this plant does not look like what is today known as "viola alba". I have been unable to find a transcription of the Greek text.