Pungitius marinus[75] or sea bansticle hauing a prickle one each side the smallest fish of the sea about an inch long sometimes drawne ashoare with netts together with weeds & pargaments[M] of the sea. [75] The smallest of the genus _Gasterosteus_, or Stanstickles, is _G. pungitius_, the ten-spined Stickleback, but this fish is two inches long when full grown. All the species seem to be more or less indifferent to the salinity of the water. The fifteen-spined Stickleback, _G. spinachia_, is also sometimes taken by the shrimpers, and is the most truly marine species, but is by no means "the smallest fish of the sea." [M] This word which Wilkin renders "fragments," is doubtless from the Latin _pergamentum_, and it seems likely that Browne had in view certain sea-weeds, possibly _Laminaria_ or _Ulva_ which, especially when dry, present somewhat the appearance and texture of parchment. Many sorts of flat fishes[76] The pastinaca oxyrinchus with a long & strong aculeus in the tayle conceuud of speciall venome & virtues. [76] _Pastinaca oxyrinchus_ appears to be the Sting Ray (_Trygon pastinaca_); _Raia clavata_, the Thornback; _R. oculata_, the Spotted Ray (_R. maculata_); _R. aspera_; the Shagreen Ray? (_R. fullonica_). 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[77] & skulls comparable in taste and delicacy vnto the soale. [77] The Brill, _Rhombus lævis_ (Lin.), _Passer asper squamosus___, Rondl., formerly known as the Brett, Bretcock, Skull, or Pearl. The Buglossus solea or soale[78] plana & oculata as also the Lingula or small soale all in very great plentie. [78] _Solea vulgaris_, the Common Sole. The "_Lingula_, or small Sole," is probably the _Solea variegata_, Flem., the _S. parva sive Lingula_ of Rond. Jonston figures "_Solea lingulata_," 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. Sometimes a fish aboue half a yard long like a butt[79] or soale called asprage wch I haue known taken about Cromer. [79] The "asprage" (or it may be "a sprage") may possibly be the Dab, _Pleuranectes 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. [_Fol. 31._] [See _Roller ante_ p. 30.] [_Fol. 32._] Sepia or cuttle fish[80] [smear] & great plentie of the bone or shellie substance which sustaineth the whole bulk of that soft fishe found co[=m]only on the shoare.