494 ORDER MALACOPTERYGII SUBBRACHIATI. 



with trenchant teeth, by a smaller head and mouth. 

 Its body is smooth and its lateral line straight. It is 

 esteemed here as equal to the sole. 



PI. Limanda, Linn., Bl. 46., (the bret). Is of a 

 rhomboidal form, like the flounder, and has tolerably 

 large eyes, and between them a salient line. Its 

 lateral line undergoes a strong curve above the pec- 

 toral. Its scales are more rough than in the preced- 

 ing species, which has given rise to its French name 

 Umande, from lima, a file ; its teeth, though in a single 

 range, as in the other plaices, are less broad, and 

 almost linear. The side on which the eyes are is a 

 clear brown, with some nearly effaced spots, brown 

 and whitish. Although small, it is more esteemed at 

 Paris than the plaice, because it bears the carriage 

 better \ 



Hippoglossus, Cuv., 



Have, with the fins and form of platessa, the jaws and 

 pharynx armed with teeth, most generally strong and 

 sharp. Their form is usually more oblong. 



The North Sea produces one which grows to an 

 enormous size, arriving, it is said, to six or seven feet 

 in length, and three or four hundred pounds weight. 

 It is 



PI. hippoglossus, L., Bl. 47., (the great halibut). 

 It has the eyes to the right, the lateral line arched 



1 Add Pleur. planus, Mitchill ; Pleur. stellqtus, Pall. Mem. de 

 l'Ac. dePctersb. III. x. 1. 



