_Origin of Moles._--Meeting with an octogenarian molecatcher a few weeks since, in the neighbourhood of Bridgwater, the old man volunteered the following account of the origin of moles, or _wants_ as they are sometimes called in Somerset. "It was a proud woman, sir, too proud to live on the face of the earth, and so God turned her into a mole, and made her live _under_ the earth; and that was the _first mole_." My informant was evidently much confirmed in his belief, by the fact of "moles having (as he said) hands and feet like Christians." W. A. J. _Mistletoe._--The mistletoe grows upon the _poplar tree_, near the railway station at Taunton, and likewise at White-Lackington near Ilminster. I have not seen any upon the oak. W. A. J. * * * * * Minor Notes. _Byron's "Siege of Corinth."_--In the late Dr. Moir's _Lectures on the Poetical Literature of the last Half Century_, in commenting on Byron's _Siege of Corinth_ he mentions "the glorious moonlight scene in which Francesca and Alp part for the last time, _the one to die of a broken heart_, the other to perish in his apostasy." From this he evidently considers that in this celebrated scene it is the still living form of Francesca that visits her lover; but though Lord Byron has, according to his frequent practice, left this unexplained, the whole passage seems to me to show that his intention was, that the visit should be considered as a supernatural one. Space will not allow of my bringing forward the proofs of this, but it can be easily verified by any one who reads the passage in question attentively. A singular mistake occurs in p. 8. of the work above quoted. Could any one have supposed that a poet, and a writer on poetical literature, should be ignorant of the best known poetical name of the last century? Yet Mr. Moir talks of "_William_" Pope. He might as well have talked of "_Alexander_" Shakspeare. J. S. WARDEN.