Box 1, Folder 5: Diaries 1827-1828

[Left page] eight rayed: the four lowest rays rough on the edges; scales rough; abdomen mailed with large carinated scales. Species

Genus 18 Trigla Head large, mailed, and marked with rough lines; eyes large; nostrils double: gill covers spiny; gill-membrane 7-rayed; before the pectoral fines of most species there are articulated process somewhat like fingers. 14 species PliewonectesScomber

[Right page] Abdominales.

Genus 27. Amia Head long, naked, rough, with visible sutures. Teeth, both in jaws and palate close-set, sharp, numerous. Cirri or beards two , near the nostrils. Gill-membrane twelve-rayed: body scaly. - Only one species inharting [inhabiting] the fresh water of Carolina

Genus 28 Argentina Teeth in the jaws and tongue; gillmembrane 6 rayed; vent near the tail; ventral fins many rayed. - 4 specie A carolina inhabits the fresh water of Carolina

Genus 29 Atherina Head somewhat flattened over the upper jaw; gill membrane 6 rayed; body marked with a silver lateral stripe. 5 species.

[Left page] 34 Genus 30. Clupea [in pencil]herring Ohio Falls[/in pencil] Head compressed; mouth compressed and internally rough; jaws unequal; tongue short and rough; with inverted teeth; side plates of the upper mandible serrated; gill-membrane eight-rayed; gills [setacious?] internally; abdomen sharp, elongated, and covered with moderate scales; ventral fins often nine-rayed; tail forked. -15 species.

Genus 31. Cobitis Eyes in the upper part of the head; mouth in the greater number of species barded; body almost equally think throughout; and covered with easily deciduous and small scales; tail rounded; air bladder hard or osseous. 5 species

[Right page] 35 Genus 32 Cyprinus [in pencil]Oh. Falls[/in pencil] Mouth small and without teeth; gillmembrande, with three rays; ventral fins often and perhaps generally 9-rayed 31 species

Genus Loricaria Head smooth; mouth with teeth; gill membrane 6-rayed; body mailed 2 species [Gamiln?] 7 species Shaw

Genus 34. Teuthis Head truncated on the forepart; gillmembrane 5-rayed; teeth equal, rigid, approximate in a single row. - 2species

[in pencil] Salmo Esox Migil Exocetus [/in pencil]

[Left page] 36 Apodes Genus 43 Ammodytes [in pencil] Sauce [/in pencil] Head compressed narrower than the body: upper lip doubled: lower jaw narrow narrow, pointed: teeth small and sharp. Gill-membrane seven-rayed: body long, roundish, with very small scales: tail distinct. Nor dear 1 species

Genus 44. Anarhichas. Head rounded blunt; fore-teeth in each jaw conia large divergent; 6 or more; grinders in the lower jaw & pallate rounded; gill-membrane 7rayed; body roundish, caudal-fin distinct 3 Species.

Genus 45. Gymnothorax Body eel-shaped, no pectoral fins; spiracle single on each side of the neck, small, oval, & covered. 4 Species.

Genus 46 [Gymnoths?]

[Right page] 37 The head with lateral opercula; two tentacula on the upper lip; eyes covered by the common skin; gill membrane 5-rayed; body compressed, generally without a dorsal fin, but carinted by a fin beneath. 15 Species

47 Genus [Leptocephaeus?] Only one species from Anglesea.

48 Genus Xiphias [in pencil] The sword fish

50 [Meraena?] - Eel [/in pencil] Order Branchiostegi - Gills destitute of bony rays. Order Chondropterygii with cartilaginous gills - Genus Muraena - O. Apodes [in pencil] O. Falls [/in pencil] Head smooth; nostrils tubular; gill= membrane ten rayed; eyes covered with

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the common integument. Body nearly cylindrical, smooth & slippery, Tail, back, and anal fins united; spiracle behind the head, or pectoral fins.

About 9 species —.

Genus Xiphias [underlined] Order Apodes. Head furnished with a long, hard, sword shaped upper-jaw. No teeth. Gill mem brane 8 rayed; body rounded, and has no apparent scales.

Genus Scomber [underlined] Order Thoracci Body smooth; gill membrane 7 rayed Between the dorsal fin and the tail are several small or spurious fins.

Genus Salmo [underlined] Order Abdomenial Two dorsal fins, the hindermost one is fleshy and without rays. Teeth in the jaws & on the tongue; and the body is covered with round and minutely striated scales.

Genus Exos [underlined] Order Abdom. Head somewhat flat, upper jaw shorter

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than the other. gill membrane from 7 to 12 rayed. Body long, slender, compressed at the sides, covered with hard scales. Dorsal situated near the tail and generally opposite to the anal fin.

Genus Mugil [underlined] Order Abdomineals Body and gills covered with large scales; lips mempranaceous; upper one carnated within. Teeth not in the jaws but on the tongue and palate. Gull = memb has 6 or 7 curved rays.

Genus Exocoetus [underlined] order Abdominales Head covered with scales; mouth destitute of teeth. Belly angular; pectoral fins almost as long as the body 2 species [inscription in pencil]

Order Chondropterygn Genus Accipenser. The Sturgeon Tribe Ohio Falls[inscription in pencil] Head obtuce; The mouth is under the head tubular, and without teeth. Between the end of the snout and and the mouth

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are for cirri [underlined] on tendrils; and on each side is a narrow aperture of the gills. Body long in proportion to the thickness, and usually angular from several rows of large bony plates.

Genus Squalus[underlined] Shark tribe Body compressed, long in proportion to the thickness and tapers towards the tail. Head obtuse. From four to seven breathing apertures on the side of the neck. Mouth situated under the head, armed with several rows of serrated sharp pointed teeth of different forms, some of which are fixed and others moveable. Skin covered with very slender prickles; upper parts of the tail generally longer than the lower. 30-species

Genus Raja[underlined] the ray. Body broad, thin, and flat, the mouth beneath and the eyes above the body. Breathing apertures on each side a little below the mouth. Head generally small and pointed and not distinct from the body — 20 species

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BOTANY Botany is that Branch of Natural History which treats of plants.

Vegetables grow[underlined] and live[underlined]