Traill professes to hold the scales equally.
Often the bones, teeth and scales of fishes are to FIG.
In the spruce firs (Picea), the cones are pendent when mature and their scales persistent; the leaves are arranged all round the shoots, though the lower ones are sometimes directed laterally.
It is almost made up of fragments of spines, teeth and scales of ganoid fish.
In appearance it closely resembles the roach, usually attaining a length of 8 or 9 in., with the head and back of a dusky blue colour and the sides of a shining silvery aspect, with numerous dark lines running along the course of the scales.
