504 



PLAISE FLOUNDER. 



Class IV. 



marked but smooth, bent at its commencement 

 near the gills ; the dorsal fin commences near 

 the right eye, and consists of ninety-seven rays ; 

 the tail is forked. The length of a specimen 

 from the Land's E??d, which weighed fifty-six 

 pounds, was four feet from the nose to the root 

 of the tail, its breadth, between the dorsal and 

 anal fins, eighteen inches and an half. The 

 flesh is used principally in Cornwall for bait." 

 E. H. 



These flat fishes swim sideways ; for which 

 reason Linnaeus hath styled them Pleuronectes. 



2. Plaise. Platessa? Ausonii Epist. ad 



Theon. 62. 

 Le Quarlet. Belon, 13Q. 

 Quadratulus. Rondel. 318. 



Gcsncr pise. 665. 

 Scholle, Pladise. Schonevelde y 



61. 

 Plaise. Wil. Ichth. 96. Rail 



Si/)}, pise. 31. 

 Pleuronectes oculis et tuber- 



lateribus glabris, spina ad 



anum. Arted. Synon. 30. 

 Pleuronectes Platessa. Lin. 



Sijst. 456. Gm. Lin. 1228. 



Gronov. Zooph. No. 246. 

 Skalla, Rodsputta. Faun. Succ. 



No. 328. 

 La Plie. Block ichth. ii. 2g. 



tal. 42. 

 De la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



culis sex a dextra capitis^ so7is, iv. 628. 



xHESE fishes are very common on most of 

 our coasts, and sometimes taken of the weight 

 of fifteen pounds ; but they seldom reach that 

 size, one of eight or nine pounds being reckoned 



