110 GLUTINOUS HAG. Class IV. 



This species is amply described in the defini- 

 tion. It enters the mouths of other fish when on 

 the hooks attached to the lines which remain a 

 tide under water, and totally devours the whole 

 except the skin and bones. The Scarborough 

 fishermen often take it in the robbed Jish on 

 drawing up their lines. They call it the Hag. 

 Linnaeus attributes to it the property of turning 

 water into glue, which arises from its power of 

 exsuding a viscous fluid from the double row of 

 pores which extend beneath the body from the 

 head to the tail. 



