SOa HOLIBUT FLOUNDER. Class IV. 



GENUS XXXII. FLOUNDER. 



Body quite flat, and very thin. 

 Eyes, both on the same side the head. 

 Rays branchiostegous from four to seven. 



* With the eyes on the right side. 



1. Holibut. Hippoglossus. Rondel. 325. Pleuronectes Hippoglossua. 



Gesner pise. 66q. Lin. syst. 456. Gm. Lin. 



Heglbutte, Hilligbutte. Scho- 1227- 



nevelde, 62. Halg-flundra. Faun. Suec. 



Holibut, Septentr. AnglisTax- No. 32Q. Gronov. Zoopk. 



bot. Wil. Ichth. 99. Rail No. 247. 



syn. pise. 33. Le Fletan. Block ichth. ii. 44. 



Pleuronectes oculis a dextris, tab. 47. 



totus glaber. Arted* synon. De la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



31. sens, iv. 601. 



JL HIS is the largest of the genus : some have 

 been taken in our seas weighing from one to 

 three hundred pounds; but much larger are 

 found in those of Newfoundland, Greenland, 

 and Iceland, where they are taken with a hook 

 and line in very deep water. They form a part 

 of the food of the Greenlanders* who cut them 

 into large slips, and dry them in the sun. 



* Crantz's Hist. Greenl. i. 98. 



