PLAISE FLOUNDER. Class IV, 



marked but smooth, bent at its commencement 

 near the gills ; the dorsal fin commences near 

 the right eye, and consists of ninety-seven rays ; 

 the tail is forked. The length of a specimen 

 from the Land's End, which weighed fifty-six 

 pounds, was four feet from the nose to the root 

 of the tail, its breadth, between the dorsal and 

 anal fins, eighteen inches and an half. The 

 flesh is used principally in Cornzvall for bait." 

 E. H. 



These flat fishes swim sideways ; for which 

 reason Linnceus hath styled them Pleuronectes, 



2. Plaise. Platessa ? Ausonii Epist. ad lateribus glabris, spina ad 



Theon. 62. anum. Arted. Synon. 30. 



Le Quarlet. Belon, 13Q. Pleuronectes Platessa. Lin. 



Quadratulus. Rondel. 318. Syst. 456. Gm. Lin. 1228. 



Gesner pise. 665. Gronov. Zooph. No. 246. 



Scholle, Pladise. Schonevelde, Skalla, Rodsputta. Faun. Succ. 



6l. No. 328. 



Plaise.' WiL Ichth. 96. Raii La Plie. Block ichth. ii. 2Q. 



Syn. pise. 31. tal. 42. 



Pleuronectes oculis et tuber- De la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



culis sex a dextra capitis, sons, iv. 628. 



J_HESE fishes are very common on most of 

 our coasts, and sometimes taken of the weight 

 of fifteen pounds ; but they seldom reach that 

 size, one of eight or nine pounds being reckoned 



