4lt THE FLOUNDER. 



Genus XXXIII.-- 7/6^ F.ounJer, 



This genus comprehends the numerous race of flat fifh^ 

 which keep conftantly on one fide, and refide at the bot- 

 tom of the water, from wanting the fwimming bladder, 

 Thej make progrefs with one fide forward, and are, on 

 that account, termed pkuroneBes bj the author of the 

 Syftem of Nature, who has enumerated feven diiFerent 

 fpecies belonging to this tribe. The generic chara£l:ers 

 of the flounder are ftrongly marked ; The body is fiat, 

 and one fide conftantly of a different colour from the 

 other. The head, as well as the reft of the body, is 

 covered with fmall imbricated fcales, and both eyes are 

 placed upon the fame fide of it *. 



The fifhes of this genus are many of them excellent 

 food, and found in great plenty in our feas. From their 

 extreme voracity, they are net difficult to take with the 

 hook and line. Sometimes they have been known to 

 fvvallow the plummet at the end of the founding lincj 

 while the failors were taking the depth of the water f . 



• GviZP. Hift. Pifcium, p, i8l. 

 ■}■ Eritifb Zool. Clafs iv. Gt-n. S4. 



