Considering what was meant by Lady in the names of plants, we should refrain from supposing that _Neottia spiralis_ was called the Lady-traces "sensu obsc.," even if those who are more skilled in such matters than I am can detect such a sense. I cannot learn what a lady's _traces_ are; but I suspect plaitings of her hair to be meant. "Upon the spiral sort," says Gerard, "are placed certaine small white flowers, _trace_ fashion," while other sorts grow, he says, "spike fashion," or "not _trace_ fashion." Whence I infer, that in his day _trace_ conveyed the idea of spiral. A. N. _Specimens of Foreign English_ (Vol. iii. _passim._).--I have copied the following from the label on a bottle of _liqueur_, manufactured at Marseilles by "L. Noilly fils et C^{ie}." The English will be best understood by being placed in juxtaposition with the original French: "Le Vermouth est un vin blanc legerement amer, parfume avec des plantes aromatiques bienfaisantes. "Cette boisson est tonique, stimulante, febrifuge et astringente: prise avec de l'eau elle est aperitive et raffraichissante: elle est aussi un puissant preservatif contre les fievres et la dyssenterie, maladies si frequentes dans les pays chauds, pour lesquels elle a ete particulierement composee." "The Wermouth is a brightly bitter and perfumed with aromatical and good vegetables white wine. "This is tonic, stimulant, febrifuge and costive drinking; mixed with water it is aperitive, refreshing, and also a powerful preservative of fivers and bloody-flux; those latters are very usual in warmth countries, and of course that liquor has just been particularly made up for that occasion." HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia. _Blanco White_ (Vol. vii., pp. 404. 486.).--Your correspondent H. C. K. is right in his impression that the sonnet commencing "Mysterious Night! when our first parents knew," &c. was written by Blanco White. See his _Life_ (3 vols., Chapman, 1845), vol. iii. p. 48. J. K. R. W. _Pistols_ (Vol. viii., p. 7.).--In Strype's Life of Sir Thomas Smith, _Works_, Oxon. 1821, mention is made of a statute or proclamation by the Queen in the year 1575, which refers to that of 33 Hen. VIII. c. 6., alluded to by your correspondent J. F. M., and in which the words _pistol_ and _pistolet_ are introduced: