CHEILANTHES EATONI, Baker. 
Eaton’s Lip-Fern. 
Cheilanthes Eatoni ; Root -stock short, chaffy with 
rather long slenderly acuminate glossy scales; stalks clus- 
tered, four to eight inches long, erect, wiry, covered, as are the 
rachis and its divisions, with narrow shining pale-ferruginous 
scales and paleaceous hairs intermixed; fronds four to nine 
inches long, oblong-lanceolate, pubescent above with whitish 
entangled woolly hairs, beneath covered with a heavy matted 
ferruginous tomentum, and more or less scaly, especially when 
young, tripinnate; pinnae ovate-oblong, lower ones rather dis- 
tant, upper ones crowded; ultimate pinnules contiguous, half 
a line long, rounded, but narrowed at the base, the terminal 
ones often twice larger and more decidedly obovate; margin 
of the pinnules continuously recurved, the edge slightly mem- 
branaceous. 
Cheilanthes Eatoni, Baker, Syn. Fil., p. 140. — Porter & Coulter, 
Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado, p. 153. — Eaton, Ferns of 
the South-West, p. 315. 
