Edith Sherwood Ph.D.

The Voynich Botanical Plants

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folio 94r

Folio 94r. Moonwort or Moonfern (Botrychium lunaria). It is a small fern with fleshy roots. Its fronds are pinnate with 3 to 8 pairs of rounded leaves and a fertile spike that is completely covered, when ripe with brown spores. Legends claim that it can raise the dead, open locks and unshoe horses that tread on it. This folio was identified by Dana Scot. (1) (B)

(1) Wikipedia
(B) Drawings that are similar to illustrations in other herbals