322 TOPKNOT FLOUNDER. Class IV. 



and less rhomboidal than the turbot.* This 

 fish is now more generally called Brill than 

 Pearl : it probably derived the latter name 

 from the white pearly dots with which the up- 

 per side is sometimes very distinctly marked. 

 Upon the coasts of Devonshire and Cornwall it 

 is known by the name of Kite. 



" It is in season during the winter and 

 spring months. The London supply is first 

 from Torbay, and the western coast ; afterwards 

 principally from Sussex. The greatest com- 

 mon weight eight pounds." E. H. 



10. Top- 

 knot. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



Pleuronectes punctatus. Ph LeTargeur. Block ichth. vi. 

 oculis sinistrisj corpore lato 23. tab. 188. 



asperoque. Gm. Lin. 1235. Huh. Tr. des peches iii. 266. 



tab. 5. f. 4. 



" JDODY, the fins included, is very square 

 in its form. Color of the upper side a dark and 

 somewhat reddish brown, with many star-shaped 

 or round spots of a darker color, which also 

 seem red when the light passes through them ; 

 some are large ; the smaller ones of different 



* The Linncean specific name Rhombus does not seem bel- 

 ter adapted to this species than does that of maximus to the tur- 

 bot. E.H. 



