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Spanish : el pino. Irish : pinn chrann. Gaelic : pinchrann. 

 Anglo-Saxon: pinu, All these forms of the same name are 

 derived, according to Pictet, from the Sanscrit verb pina, the 

 past participle of pita, to be fat, juicy. From /^a, comes Latin, 



pinus, and the Gaelic, pin. Old Gaelic : peith, put for pic-nus 



L. pic, stem of pix pitch, hence pine means pitch tree (Skeat), 



P. sylvestris— Scotch pine, Scots fir. Gaelic: giuthas. Irish : 

 giumhas. 



" Mar giuthas a lub an doinionn." — OssiAN. 

 Like a pine bent by the storm. 



Giuthas. Old Irish : gius. Manx : juys. Gaelic : giuthas, said 

 to be from root gis, from the abundance of pitch or resin. Con 

 or cona (O'Reilly), from Greek: x^ vo h konos, a cone, a pine. 

 Hence connadh, and Anglo Scotch : cen, fir wood, fire-wood. 

 Badge of the Macgregors — Clan Alpin. 



P. picea — Silver pine. Gaelic : giuthas geal (Fergusson), white 

 pine. First planted at Inveraray Castle in 1682. 



Abies communis — Spruce. Gaelic : giuthas Lochlainneach, 

 Scandinavian pine. 



"Nuair theirgeadh giuthas Lochlainneach." — MacCodrum. 

 When the spruce fir would get done. 



Lochlannach, from loch, lake, and lann, a Germano-Celtic word 

 meaning land — i.e., the lake-lander, a Scandinavian. 



" Giuthas glan na Lochlainn, 

 Fuaight' le copar ruadh." 

 Polished fir ol Scandinavia, 

 Bound with reddish copper. 



P. larix — Larch. Gaelic and Irish : learag. Scotch : larick. 

 Latin : larix, from the Greek : \api£, a larch, or Xapwos, fat, from 

 the abundance of resin the wood contains. Welsh : larswydden. 



P. strobus — (Strobus, a name employed by Pliny for an eastern 

 tree used in perfumery). Weymouth pine. Gaelic: giuthas 

 Sasunnach (Fergusson), the English pine. It is not English, 

 however ; it is a North American tree, but was introduced from 

 England to Dunkeld in 1725. 



CupresBUS — Cypress. Irish and Gaelic : cuphair, an alteration 

 of Cyprus, where the tree is abundant. 



