﻿NO. 



SMITIISOXIAX i:XIM.( iRAI'KiX: 



1922 



65 



of plants in widely separated localities, covering nearly all parts of 

 the country. All except three of the 14 departments were visited, and 

 collecting was carried on m most of them. Five months were spent 

 in the work, and 4.600 numbers, represented by about 15,000 speci- 

 mens of plants, were obtained. The central and western parts of the 

 country are densely popidated and intensively cultivated, the nidun- 



FiG. 64. — Kruption irom the ^ccondai'}' crater of 

 the volcano of San Salvador in 1917. ( Photo- 

 graph 1iy Dr. \'. ^1. Huezo. ) 



tains being given over to the culture of coltee, which is often planted 

 up to the very summits of the highest volcanoes. On this account, 

 most of the nattiral vegetation has been destroyed, and conditions 

 are not so favorable for botanical work as in the other Central Amer- 

 ican countries. There are forests still remaining on some of the vol- 

 canoes, and in the mountain chain known as the Sierra de Apaneca. 

 which lies close to the Guatemalan frontier, and here it is possible 



