Tree Lite 
The amentaceous group admits of a natural and very 
evident twofold division, according as the ripened 
fruit is a nut or a seed (or seed-like)—one of those con- 
venient distinctions that science deigns to make use of, 
though the difference is apparent rather than real, a nut 
being only a large, meaty seed, and a seed being essen- 
tially a diminutive nut. Moreover, the species of each 
division exhibit in common a very distinctive tree-type, 
for in the nut-fruited group are our finest forest-growths ; 
these are our great lumber-trees, for the most part tough- 
fibred, often coarse-grained, utilitarian, like chestnut, 
hickory, and oak ; whereas in the seed-fruited group are 
the more delicate and graceful sorts—willows, poplars, 
birches. 
The following are our 
NUT-FRUITED AMENTACEOUS TREES 
Shagbark Hickory Scarlet Oak 
Black Hickory Red Oak 
Western Shagbark Hickory Black Oak 
Small-fruited Hickory Barren Oak 
Pignut (Hickory) Spanish Oak 
Bitternut (Hickory) Pin Oak 
Pecan Hickory Post Oak 
Butternut Bur Oak 
Black Walnut Willow Oak 
Chestnut Water Oak 
Beech Shingle Oak 
White Oak Live Oak 
Swamp White Oak Upland Willow Oak 
Chestnut Oak Chinquapin 
Yellow Chestnut Oak 
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