[Ads-l] Antedating "lip-fern" (OED 1890)

[John Doe]

1817 Botany Class @ William Coll. Mass. Manu. of Bot. 5--vestita (lip-fern)
frond doubly-pinnate with pinnatifid leafets
(note, hand-writing on cover says it's by "Eaton")

https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Manual_of_Botany_for_the_Northern_Stat/opcYAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22lip-fern%22+-%22john+ford%22&pg=PA123&printsec=frontcove
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