Marshall, 1942 32. General Act Mt. Cacaguigne, Dept. Morazan, El Salvador January The west side - large trees with low ferns below. In a ravine there is a very humid habitat of giant ferns, bamboos, grasses, etc. In the bottom of the canyon, still on the cool west slope (facing east) are banana groves - very damp - and areas of tall grass. On the east slope is brushy growth & open areas of tall moist grass where has been cleared - also cornfield grown to weeds & vines. Above this regular oak forest or humid type of forest, where cleared. This canyon is steep & very cold & wet. Doesn't dry off until near middle of day when sun gets in. Was once probably Humid Upper Tropical. Plant Communities & Succession: Tricker thinks that much of the growth outside of oak & pine is not native & that much of the brush habitat is just exaggeration of normal undergrowth of oak forest. However, the arid brush on S slope is on such steep ground that it's hard to believe is a successional stage on cleared land because would have been a job to clear it. However,