TAIIASBR EXPEDITION " 
SUSSESTIOff FOR COLL3CTIHS BOTANICAL MATERIAL. 
(A*) Seed plants, 
1. Indigenous flora. - The most favorable places to collect indigenous 
plants of the high Polynesian islands are to be found, as a rule, at 
the head of vallies, on cliffs, high ridges, or steep slopes, which have 
never been inhabited, cultivated, or burned over by fire. Areas in the 
cloud zone, too wet to burn and rarely if ever visited by man are often 
the only parts of an island where the original vegetation remains intact. 
Elsewhere the indigenous plants have been cleared away to make room for 
breadfruit, taro, banana, and other plants of the early native agriculture 
2* Bthno-botany .- low elevations, particularly near permanent streams, 
and high elevations suited to the cultivation or growing of food, ceremon¬ 
ial, medicinal, cordage, and fiber plants of the early inhabitants are 
favorable for the collection of plants upon which the natives formerly 
depended for existence* Record native name and use; usually the natives 
distinguish several varieties of each of their agricultural plants and 
have an intimate knowledge of them; they also distinguish sharply be¬ 
tween their ancient agricultural plants and those subsequently introduced 
by Europeans. 
3* The specimens c ollected should illustrate typical variations of the 
stem, leaves, flowers, and fruit; also, the underground parts of small 
plants easily pulled up* They should be dried as rapidly as possible 
between sheets of newspaper, weighted down or tied in bundles to give 
moderate pressure* Each day, the papers should be changed until the 
specimens are dry then sprinkle with anphtaline. The white record sheet 
is torn from the note book and remains always with the numbered specimens. 
Fruit, flowers, and other parts that do not press well may be preserved 
in two percent formaline or in alcohol, using for the purpose wide 
