PI'NUS RESINO'SA. 
THE RED PINE. 
Class. Order. 
MONCECIA. MONADELPHIA. 
Natural Order. 
PINACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit 
Introduced 
N. America. 
50 feet. 
April. 
Tree. 
in 1756. 
No. 932. 
The ingenuity of modern authors has found for 
the word Pinusj a derivation in both the Greek 
and Celtic languages; viz. From the Greek word 
PiON, signifying fat, in allusion to the pitch and 
tar produced by trees of this genus; and from the 
Celtic PIN or pyn, which means a mountain or 
rock, and well indicates the habitation of the trees. 
The latter derivation is probably correct. 
The natural order, Coniferte, contains all our 
pine and fir trees. These have unisexual flowers ; 
that is, they produce two sorts of Amentum, or 
Catkin, each containing only the flowers of one sex. 
These are usually on one tree, but in some species 
the male and female Catkins are on different trees. 
The Catkin, which becomes productive of seeds, 
hardens, is sometimes woody, and is then, in its 
matured state, called a strobile, or cone. The 
seeds of many species are furnished with a mem- 
branous wing, so that when the sunny gleams of 
spring stretch wide their prison doors, the moun- 
tain breeze invites them forth, and bears them 
away to fulfil the duties of their nature. They 
sail afar off, to colonize some rocky summit, where 
