8 MY SECOND VISIT TO THE ENGADINE. 



ceeded to Samaden. It began thundering before we left 

 Maria, and though we managed to get to Samaden without 

 much rain, we were no sooner housed (not in the large hotel, 

 that was actually full, and we were obliged to be in a de- 

 pendance some little distance from the hotel) than another 

 thunderstorm began, and the rain poured down heavil^^ 

 I must admit that T was disappointed with the effect pro- 

 duced by the thunder amongst these hills ; I have heard far 

 liner effects of sound produced among the low hills down 

 the Clyde. 



The next morning I determined to ascei'tain whether Herr 

 Pfaffenzeller, of Munich, was still at Samaden. I interro- 

 gated the waiter, who could give me no information, so I 

 applied to the landlord, whose answer was, " Er ist gestern 

 gereist" — "He has been here for fully six weeks, but he left 

 here yesterday." So perished my last chance of finding a 

 colleague in the Engadine. 



The morning was bright and sunny, and I first tried down 

 the valley in the direction of Bevers. I tried a dry steep 

 slope on the left, but found nothing except a plant or two of 

 Luiierpitium hirsuUnn, which were almost eaten down to the 

 ground by the larvse of Depressaria laserpitii. Finding 

 this collecting-ground unprofitable, I returned to Samaden, 

 crossed the Inn and then turned into the meadows, where 

 every one was busy making hay, and where I sau-, to my 

 surprise, that even in the valley and at that elevation, the 

 grass had been actually burnt quite brown; in crossing these 

 meadows I gradually approached the rising ground on the 

 south side of the valley, and there, under some fine arolla trees, 

 I hoped to have had some sport. I tried several boggy bits 

 of ground, several heathy places, but alike in vain. I saw 

 no Tineina, so I was obliged to content myself with a 

 Lithosla aureola and a C7'a7nhus radicUus, On the whole. 



