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the Florentine style, and not very happy ; but a copy of theLoggie of 

 Orcagna, at the end of the Ludwig's strasse, makes a very fine object, 

 and altogether, the Ludwig's strasse itself is a magnificent or perhaps 

 unrivalled entrance to the city. The buildings on both sides are on 

 a grand scale, and though some of them may individually be open to 

 criticism, yet their defects are lost in the impressive magnificence of 

 the whole. 



From Munich I went to Passau, a very uninteresting ride, and it is 

 not till we approach the latter place that the botanist observes any 

 spot on which he would like to spend an hour or two, except per- 

 haps the Erdinger moss, where we first met with it, at Kirch eim — a 

 dreary place, where only a botanist could find anything inviting. At 

 Passau we are quite in a different country. The banks of the Danube 

 are steep and rocky, with small valleys opening into the larger. I 

 walked up the banks of the Inn, where Arundo littorea is abundant, 

 and where I got also Geranium palustre ; I then turned into 

 the forest ; 1 observed what I believe is Arundo stricta, in small 

 quantity, and not yet in flower. Soldanella montana, alas ! out of 

 flower, but very abundant. The next day I crossed the Danube, and 

 walked up the sweet valley of the lis, which winds remarkably be- 

 tween steep and often rocky banks, as it approaches the Danube. It 

 was rather above this beautiful part, on a side valley, that 1 met with 

 some spongy meadows, which furnished, besides many things now too 

 familiar to mention, an umbellate plant hardly in flower, which I have 

 not yet determined, and Juncus filiformis. The woods in this direc- 

 tion gave me little, and I could not discover a single plant of 

 Soldanella montana. Yet the soil is, I believe, alike granite on both 

 sides of the river. In a boggy spot in the woods I observed Trientalis 

 europsea ; Digitalis grandiflora is found in some of the sloping banks 

 below the woods. Carex davalliana occurs occasionally. Berteroa 

 incana and Spiraea Aruncus are very common. 



From Passau I descended the Danube to Vienna, the first day in 

 a continued rain, the second with intervals of fine weather. The 

 banks are less magnificent and romantic than those of the Rhine, and 

 want, in great measure, the charms of the numerous castles which 

 adorn the latter river. But they are more varied and graceful in their 

 forms, and with much more and better wood. Nothing can be finer 

 than the way in which the hills are broken in the openings of some 

 of the lateral valleys, or more tempting to a botanist. The staple 

 conversation in the steam-boats, is the supei'iority of the Danube to 

 the Rhine. I found that the relation on whose account chiefly 1 had 



