_Queries on the Mistletoe_ (Vol. iv., p. 110.).--Will your correspondent who some Numbers back stated, in a communication on the mistletoe, that it was _not uncommon_ upon the oak in _Somersetshire_, kindly give _two or three localities_ on his own knowledge? I fear some mistake has arisen, for, as far as my experience goes, an arch-Druid might hunt long enough in the present day for the "heaven-descended plant" among a _grove of oaks_, ere he fortuitously alighted upon it. Some years ago a friend assured me that he was credibly informed by a timber merchant often in the Sussex forests, that _mistletoe_ was not uncommon upon oaks there; but on a personal inspection it turned out that _ivy_, not _mistletoe_, was intended. I suspect a similar mistake in Somersetshire, unless two or three certain localities can be named as seen by a competent observer. I should also like to know from your Carolinian correspondent H. H. B., whether the mistletoe he mentions is our genuine "wintry mistletoe"--the _Viscum album_ of Linnæus, or _another species_. The "varieties of the oak" he speaks of as having mistletoe upon them, are, I presume, all _American_ species, and not the European _Quercus robur_. A. F. Worcester. _Portrait of Mesmer._--I should be glad if you, or any of your readers in England or in France, could inform me whether there is anywhere to be found a portrait--drawing, painting, or engraving--of _Mesmer_? SIGMA. Minor Queries Answered. _Saint Richard_ (Vol. iv., p. 475.).--On what authority do the particulars recorded of this personage in the _Lives of the Saints_ rest? I cannot help considering his very existence as rather apocryphal, for these reasons:--1. Bede, who must have been his contemporary, and whose _Ecclesiastical History_ was written several years after the date assigned for Richard's death, never mentions his name. 2. When did his alleged renunciation of the throne occur, and what historian of the period mentions it? At the time of his death, and for thirty-five years before, the kingdom of Wessex was under the sway of Ina, one of the greatest and best of the West Saxon kings. 3. His name is not a Saxon one, and I believe it is not to be found in English history till after the Norman Conquest. S. S. WARDEN.