PINE. S? 
seed, in the manner of tea, is recommended in coughs; 
and from the seed is also made an useful kind of 
poultice for external inflammations. 
After the oil has been expressed, the remaining fari- 
naceous part of the seeds is squeezed together into 
]arge masses, called oil-cake, which is given as food to 
oxen. 
It must be remarked that the water in which flax 
has been macerated becomes thereby poisonous to 
cattle ; and, on this account, the practice of steeping it 
in any running stream or common pond was prohibited 
by an act of Parliament, passed in the reign of Henry 
the Eighth. 
CLASS VI. HEXANDRIA. 
MONOGYNIA. 
98. The PINE (Bromelia ananas) is a rich and highly 
fragrant fruity of large size, and yellozo colour, with protube- 
rances on its surface ; and crowned by a tuft of stro?ig and 
pointed leaves, edged zcith sharp spines. 
This, the best and finest flavoured of all known fruits, 
was originally imported into England from South 
America, about the year 1690. In that country and 
the West Indies it has long been cultivated in the open 
ground ; and, from free access to a congenial atmo- 
sphere, it attains there a much finer flavour than is pos- 
sible in a forced state, in the hot-houses of Great 
Britain. 
Pines are planted in earth ; and the pots which con- 
tain them are immersed in beds of bark, after it has 
been used by the tanners. About the month of April 
the young fruit begins to advance, but the usual season 
for ripening does not commence till July, and the fruit 
