Class IV. 



W E E V E R* 



169 



Lower jaw floplng down. 

 Gill covers aculeated. 

 Six branchioftegous rays. 

 Two dorfal fins. 

 Anus near the bread. 



xviir. 



WEEVER. 



A^ajcav ? JrzJ}. H'lfi. an. Lib. 



Vlll. c. 13 ^lian, Hiji. 



an. Lib. W. c. 50. Oppiaii 



Halieut. II. 459. 

 Draco mafinus Plinii Lib. IX. 



c. 27. Draco, Dracunculus. 



Lib. XXXII. c, II. Ara- 



neus. Lib- IX. c. 48. 

 La vive, Bclon. 209. 

 Draco. RondeL 300. Ge/ner 



pifc, j'j, yS, 



Peter-mannlken, Schwertfif- 7!.CommoK-< 



che. Schone-velde 16. 

 The Weever. WiL Icth. 238. 



Raii fyn. pi/c. 91, 

 Tracliinus maxilla inferiore 



longiore, cirris dellituta. 



Art ed. fyn. 71. 

 Trachinus Draco. Lin, Jyji, 



453. Gro?io-v. ZoDph. No. 



274. 

 Farfing, Fiaffing. Faun, Suec* 



No. 305. 



THE qualities of this fiQi were well known 

 to the antients, who take notice of them 

 without any exaggeration : the wounds inflidied 

 by its fpines are exceedingly painful, attended 

 with a violent burning, and moft pungent Ihooting, 

 and fometimes with an inflammation that will ex- 

 tend from the arm to the flioulder. * 



It is a common notion that chefe fymptoms pro- 



* It is probable that the malignity of the fymptoms arifes 

 from the habit of body the perfon is in, or the part in which 

 the wound is given. 



ceed 



