THE PINE TREE. 
Botanical Name, Firms sylvestris. —Class, Monoecia .— 
Order, Monadelphia.—Native place, Europe. 
Sentiment. 
PITT. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
Our friends the poets aid us once more in 
fixing a language. Barry Cornwall alludes 
to “ the moaning of the Pines,” as though 
demanding pity and pardon :— 
“ And, when the rising moon 
Flames down the avenue of pines, and looks 
Red and dilated through the ev’ning mists, 
