The simplest and most common treatment of greenery in the Canterbury cases is a garland surrounding the head, sometimes small (Images 1 and 2) but can be much larger (Images 3 and 4).  For some the recognisable feature is that the leaves and branches trail out of the mouth (Images 5 to 8).  For some the greenery extends over the face as a flat disc (Images 9 and 10), or flows over the chin (Image 11), or covers the whole face (Image 12), or is frankly indescribable (Image 13).  With lion heads (Images 14 and 15) it is often hard to distinguish mane from greenery - both shown above have wild grimaces and extended tongues.  On rare occasions, the image is of a known subject (Image 16), and occasionally the colouration is red or gold (Image 17).  The remaining three (Images 18 to 20) include hints of greenery but the main impact is of wild mythical creatures that defy classification.

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