diff --git a/aia.py b/aia.py
index a3bd1bc..f9705c5 100644
--- a/aia.py
+++ b/aia.py
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ def validate_certificate_chain(self, der_certs):
     @CachedMethod
     def cadata_from_host(self, host):
         """
-        Get the certification chain, apart from the leaf node,
+        Get the certification chain, minus the root certificate,
         as joined PEM (ASCII string in base64 with extra delimiters)
         certificates in a single string, to be used in a SSLContext.
         """