Class IV. COMMON FLOUNDER. 



305 



a large fish. The best and largest are taken off 

 Rye, on the coast of Sussex, and also off the 

 Dutch coasts. They spawn on the beginning 

 of February. 



They are very flat, and much more square Descrip- 



, TION. 



than the preceding. Behind the left eye is a 

 row of six tubercles, that reaches to the com- 

 mencement of the lateral line. The upper part 

 of the body and fins is of a clear brown, mark- 

 ed with large bright orange-colored spots : the 

 belly is white. 



Pleuronectes Flesus. Lin.syst. 3. Common, 



457. Gm. Lin. 122Q. 

 Gronov. Zooph. No. 248. 

 Flundra, Slatt-skadda. Faun. 



Suec. No. 327. 

 Le Flez. Block Ichth. ii. 36. 



tab. 44. 

 De la Cepede Hist, des Poi's* 



sons. iv. 633. 



Le Flez. Belon, 141. 

 Passeris tertia species. Rondel. 



3ig. Gesner pise. 666, 670. 

 Struff-butte. Schonevelde, 62. 

 Flounder, Fluke, or But. 



Wil. Ichth. Q80. Rati syn. 



pise. 32. 

 Pleuronectes oculis a dextris, 



linea laterali aspera, spi- 



nulis supine ad radices pin- 



narum, dentibus obtusis. 



Arted. synon. 31. 



JL HE flounder inhabits every part of the British 

 sea, and even frequents our rivers at a great 

 distance from the salt waters ; and for this reason 

 some writers call it the Passer fluviatilis. It never 

 grows large in our rivers, but is reckoned sweeter 

 vol. in. x 



