th© l©v©ly Inn, Th© Inn suggested parts of the upp©r Petoaao, but net 
so wild and r®o]qr. I begin t© -recognize sea© of the trees n©w,bem- 
l@oks, blr@h©s, s- all oaks, (leaves still clinging), alders;'?) with 
Millions ©f.satkins swinging, and llttl© will©ws with fat pussies. 
Th® terraeed fields ©f th« Hhin© valley looke d like ©hingles, they 
w©r® so snail and evenly laid* There is such a neatness about Ger- 
many, F©r hours it was a succesnion ©f little faster y towns {as it 
is coning a ©rose north® rn Ohio) hut the factories and surroundings 
were all s© neat and tidy, and the houses 'so pria. I saw none of the 
dirty aqnaler we always se® frora. trains in our littl® factory towns. 
There ar® garden p tohes between railroad tracers , and everything seem © 
to- ho .either, grav«ll®d, flagged, or cultivated, poor picking for a 
botanist, probably , bnt it looks so n«at and triM. -At the oust©® 
house at Salzburg they were our i ©us about mj abundance of envelopes 
and the various snanuseripts. "Warm so viel Korrespondenzv" tho man 
a sired. 'Si© sind nioht fur Brief®-., sondern fur klein© 3xa»plar©* 
™ mm, 
von Pflanzen, 1 ' I teld him.' I had praotieed saying "Ich r®is© nach 
lien, Botanilc zun stiidieren, s© I said that glibly. They did not 
ask about th® uedioin®©. Only hand baggage was examined . It is 
raining again; it sn©w@d f@r a while in Geraany, about Munich. Along 
th® railway embante©nts in Bonoandy I saw pal© yell@w primroses in 
thousands, and what lookod like Caltha palustris in ditch borders. S© : 
many places w@r® just right for skunk ©abbage I half kept an eye out 
for th® llttl® twisted hoods. Is it American ©nly? Tb®r« was a shrub ■ 
with short needle-like crowded leaves (held over winter I judge) and 
©lusters ®f gold-y©ll©w sessile flowers. Gors®, I wonder? In 0tr- 
tiany I saw no primroses (spring is lees advanced), but there Is a lit- 
tle yellow- flower in bunches (Orucifer?), and snowdrops growing on the 
railway embankment. There was a little slender leafless shrub with 
covered with tiny purplish- pink flowers. I saw Camus, aas in bloom, 
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