Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . ctive, an eruption of the volcanoof San Salvador having wrecked the capital in 1917. It is expected that there will be prepared for publication in Salva-dor a list of the species of plants obtained by this expedition, includ-ing also those collected by the Salvadorean Department of Agriculture,which is actively engaged in l)olanical exploration. Thus far onlva small part of the collections has l^een studied critically, but it isalready evident that a consideral)le number of undescribed plants is iXO. ^ SMITHSOXTAX EXPLORATIONS. ig22 67 contained in them,
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . ctive, an eruption of the volcanoof San Salvador having wrecked the capital in 1917. It is expected that there will be prepared for publication in Salva-dor a list of the species of plants obtained by this expedition, includ-ing also those collected by the Salvadorean Department of Agriculture,which is actively engaged in l)olanical exploration. Thus far onlva small part of the collections has l^een studied critically, but it isalready evident that a consideral)le number of undescribed plants is iXO. ^ SMITHSOXTAX EXPLORATIONS. ig22 67 contained in them, besides many that are rare and httle known. Theflora of Salvador is essentially like that of the Pacific slope of Guate-mala (which likewise has been but imperfectly investigated), but itis of great interest to find here many species that heretofore have notbeen known to extend north of Costa Rica and Panama. Particular attention was devoted to securing the vernacular namesemployed in Salvador, and many hundreds were obtained. .\ part. Fig. 66.—Gathering Salvadorean balsam in for-ests of the Balsam Coast. (Photograph by H. Huezo.) of the country was occupied before the Spanish conquest by peoplewho spoke a dialect of the Nahuatl language, the idiom spoken alsoby the inhabitants of the Aalley of ]\Iexico, although not or scarcelyknown in the intervening territory of Guatemala. A large part ofthe names now^ used here for plants are of Nahuatl origin, some ofthem being the same as those employed in Mexico, while others arequite dififerent. Besides these philological notes, much information 68 SMIIHSOXIAX MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 74 was secured regarding economic applications of the plants of thecountry. Salvador is especially rich in valuable cabinet woods, aremarkably large number of plants with fruits or other parts that areedible occur, and hundreds, probably, of the native plants are em-ployed by the country people because of real or supposed medicinalproperties
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