FOUND IN NORFOLK. 45 



Many sorts of flat fishes'^ The pastinaca oxyrinchus 

 with a long & strong aculeus in the tayle conceuud of 

 speciall venome & virtues. 



Severall sorts of Raia's skates & Thornebacks the 

 Raia clauata oxyrinchus, raia oculata, aspera, spinosa 

 fullonica. 



The great Rhombus or Turbot aculeatus & leuis. 



The passer or place. 



Butts of various kinds. 



The passer squamosus Bret Bretcock" & skulls 

 comparable in taste and delicacy vnto the soale. 



The Buglossus solea or soale" plana & oculata as 

 also the Lingula or small soale all in very great plentie. 



Sometimes a fish aboue half a yard long like a butt" 

 or soale called asprage wch I haue known taken about 

 Cromer. 



\^Fol. 31.] [See Roller ante p. 30.] 



[Fol. 32.] Sepia or cuttle fish'" [smear] & great 

 plentie of the bone or shellie substance which sustaineth 



'« Pastinaca oxyrinchus appears to be the Sting Ray ( Trygon pastinaca.) ; 

 Rata clavata, the Thornback ; K. oculata, the Spotted Ray (R. maculata) ; 

 R. aspera, the Shagreen Ray? (R. fullonica). 



" The Brill, Rhombus Itsvis (Lin.), Passer asper squamosus, Rondl., 

 formerly known as the Brett, Bretcock, Skull, or Pearl. 



™ Solea vulgaris, the Common Sole. The "Lingula, or small Sole," 

 is probably the Solea varie^ata, Flem., the S. parva sive Lingula of Rond. 

 Jonston figures " SoUa lin^ulaia," Tab. xx., fig. 12, but I am uncertain 

 what species is intended. It is possible that Browne may have Latinised 

 the trade name by which small Soles are known in the market as "slips" 

 and "tongues." What other species he may have wished to indicate as 

 "plana" and "oculata" it is difficult to determine. 



™ The " asprage" (or it may be "a sprage") may possibly be the Dab, 

 Pleuronectes limanda, which Rondeletius calls Passer asper. I do not find 

 that species mentioned otherwise, and a great many are taken by the Cromer 

 and Sheringham fishermen. 



*" Of the various species of the Cephalopoda, Sepia officinalis, is more 

 often represented by its calcareous dorsal plate than by the entire animal. 



