Class IV. 



W E E V E R. 



i£, 



Lower jaw Hoping down. 

 Gill covers aculeated. 

 Six branchioilegous rays. 

 Two dorfal fins. 

 Anus near the breaft. 



XVIII. 



WEEVER. 



Aoaxuv ? Arifi. Hif. an. Lib. 



V11I. c. 13. jElian. Hift. 



an. Lib. II. c. 50. Oppian 



Halieut. II. 459. 

 Draco rnarinus Plinii Lib. IX. 



c. 27. Draco, Dracunculus. 



Lib. XXXII. irj 11. Ara- 



neus. Lib. IX. r. 48. 

 La vive. Belon. 209. 

 Draco. Rondel. 300. Gefner 



pifc. 77, 78. 



Peter-manniken, Schwertfif- 71. Common, 



che. Schonevelde 16. * 



The Weever. Wil. Icth. 238. 



ifo// fyn. pifc. 91. 

 Trachinus maxilla inferiore 



longiore, cirris dellituta. 



Ar ted. fyn. 71. 

 Trachinus Draco. Lin. fyft* 



453. Grono'v. Zooph. No. 



274' 

 Fariing, Fiaffing. Faun. Suec* 

 No. 305. 



THE qualities of this fifli were well known 

 to the antients, who take notice of them 

 without any exaggeration : the wounds inflicted 

 by its fpines are exceedingly painful, attended 

 with a violent burning, and moft pungent (hooting, 

 and fometimes with an inflammation that will ex- 

 tend from the arm to the moulder. * 



It is a common notion that thefe fymptoms pro- 



* It is probable that the malignity of the fymptoms arifes 

 from the habit of body the perfon is in, or the part in which 

 the wound is given, 



ceed 



