(1) Alabama Lip Fern. Cheilánthes Alabaménsis
Fronds smooth, two to ten inches long, lanceolate, bipinnate. Pinnæ numerous, oblong-lanceolate, the lower usually smaller than those above. Pinnules triangular-oblong, mostly acute, often auricular or lobed at the base. Indusia pale, membranous and continuous except between the lobes. Stipes black, slender and tomentose at the base.
This species of lip fern may be distinguished from all the others within our limits by its smooth pinnæ. On rocks—mountains of Virginia to Kentucky, and Alabama, and westward to Arizona.