d the callow eaglet; from beneath
Whose thick mysterious boughs in the dark morn
The panther's roar came muffled while I sat
Down in the valley."

_Complaint of AEnone._

Sir Walter Scott similarly describes the tree in the pretty and
well-known lines--

"Aloft the Ash and warrior Oak
Cast anchor in the rifted rock;
And higher yet the Pine tree hung
His shattered trunk, and frequent flung,
Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high,
His boughs athwart the narrow sky."

Yet the Pine which was best known to Shakespeare, and perhaps the only
Pine he knew, was the Pinus sylvestris, or Scotch fir, and this, though
flourishing on the highest hills where nothing else will flourish,
certainly attains its fullest beauty in sheltered lowland districts.
There are probably much finer Scotch firs in Devonshire than can be
found in Scotland. This is the only indigenous Fir, though the Pinus
pinaster claims to be a native of Ireland, some cones having been
supposed to be found in the bogs, but the claim is not generally allowed
(there is no proof of the discovery of the cones); and yet it has become
so completely naturalized on the coast of Dorsetshire, especially about
Bournemouth, that it has been admitted into the last edition of
Sowerby's "English Botany."

But though the Scotch Fir is a true native, and was probably much more
abundant in England formerly than it is now, the tree has no genuine
English name, and apparently never had. Pine comes directly and without
change from the Latin, _Pinus_, as one of the chief products, pitch,
comes directly from the Latin, _pix_. In the early vocabularies it is
called "Pin-treow," and the cones are "Pin-nuttes." They were also
called "Pine apples," and the tree was called the Pine-Apple
Tree.[208:1] This name was transferred to the rich West Indian
fruit[208:2] from its similarity to a fir-cone, and so was lost to the
fruit of the fir-tree, which had to borrow a new name from the Greek;
but it was still in use in Shakespeare's day--

"Sweete smelling Firre that frankensence provokes,
And Pine Apples from whence sweet juyce doth come."

CHESTER'S _Love's Martyr_.

And Gerard describing the fruit of the Pine Tree, says: "This Apple is
called in . . . Low Dutch, Pyn Appel, and in English, Pine-apple, clog,
and cones." We also find "Fyre-tre