The Voynich Manuscript/F3v

thumb|right|500px|F3v Transcription, comments, theories, links to do with VMs page f3v to be added here... :-) Description: One plant, flush against the bottom and right margins of the page. Root: single long root, consisting of six "telescoping" conical segments, dark painted, with flat light-painted top. Tip of root is bent into a hook and ends with a small round knob. Stem: long, straight, vertical, with a dark "shadow" stripe crudely painted along its length. Branches: none. Leaves: paired, disk shaped with two "tails", two "arms", and a swallowtail-shaped "head", with long outward-curved tips. Stalks: medium length, thin. Flowers: two, very unequal size, growing out of the tip of the stem. Stalks: short, thin, like leaf stalks. Calyx: heavy, swollen, shaped like a sweet potato cut in half, dark painted. Petals: single row, light, semicircular, very small. Core: flat, light-colored, filled with dots; looks like a pepper shaker. Two paragraphs (with 6.0 and 7.5 lines), both in the top half of the page. The text is left-justified and follows the plant outline on the right. Comments: The plant looks quite strange. The telescoping root is hard to explain. The leaf shape is unusual but not impossible. The bloated flower chalices are very strange; they may have been drawn from pressed and dried specimens.