320 TURBOT FLOUNDER. Class IV. 



of different sizes ; the belly is white ; the skin 

 is without scales, but greatly wrinkled, and 

 mixed with small short spines, dispersed with- 

 out any order. 



" The eyes small and sunk ; the margin of 

 the eye-lid highly burnished ; the side line much 

 bent near the head; the dorsal fin originates 

 near the mouth ; the tail rounded. 



" Of all the known species of the genus, this, 

 in point of quality, ranks eminently the first, 

 and in size is second only to the Holibut. 

 On the western coast the greatest common 

 weight is twenty pounds. At London the sup- 

 ply of this fish is said to be as follows : January 

 to March inclusive, trawled fish from Torbay 

 and other parts of the Channel; April and 

 May trawled fish from off the Texel ; June to 

 August inclusive, caught by the line upon the 

 Dutch coast. In best season during the sum- 

 mer months. E. H." 



