larly blue or glaucous colour, with about eight deep 
furrows, the ridges prominent, obtuse, notched; the areoles 
rather close, bearing dense tufts of dark-coloured down, 
and from ten to twelve spreading, black, or black and 
white, acicular or subulate, strong aculei, and two or three 
central ones, of which one is longer and stronger than the 
rest. Flowers of very large size spring from an areole of 
the ridges. Bud clavate, seven to eight inches long, 
glabrous, clothed with olive or reddish-green scales, which 
pass upwards into sepals. Petals spreading, white, spath- 
ulate, acute, their margins crisped and serrated. Stamens 
exserted, forming a circle around the style and the long, 
many- (about twelve) rayed stigma. 
Since the above was written, and indeed while the proof sheet is 
still in type, science has had to deplore the loss of this distinguished 
and venerable Botanist. Feeling his end approaching, Mr. Lampert 
expressed the most earnest desire to be removed from his town resi- 
dence in Grosvenor Street to Kew, where he had, in a declining state 
of health, passed the previous summer and autumn, that he might be 
near that Botanic Garden, in the prosperity of which he had always 
taken (as proved by the above-mentioned munificent donation) such a 
lively interest, and where he was sure of meeting with the attentions 
which his condition required, at the hands of a few devoted friends. 
In that retired Hamlet, and under the roof of a most kind and devot- 
edly attentive family, he breathed his last, without any apparent suffer- 
ing. The writer of this brief notice, who had been onored with his 
friendship, and encouraged in the pursuit of Botany by his notice, for 
a period of thirty years, had the mournful satisfaction of witnessing 
his departure, on the 10th of January, 1842, in the eighty-first year of 
his age. An abler pen, it is hoped, will record the valuable services 
which Mr. Lampert rendered to science for a protracted series of years, 
during which he amassed one of the most valuable botanical libraries 
and richest Herbaria that has ever been formed by any private 
individual. 
