A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae.
The country around is covered with bushes and trees of a kind of leguminosae, with lilac flowers.
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The cerrados, as they are called, or scrub-consisting chiefly of acacias and leguminosae-reachto the height of ten or twenty feet.
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Dragon-flies shoot in vigorous zigzags through the dancing swarms, and a rich profusion of butterflies-theleguminosae of insects-makea fine addition to the general show.
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Smithia sensitiva.-Thisplant belongs to a distinct sub-order of the Leguminosae from Cassia.
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Next to the Leguminosae come the Malvaceae, together with some closely allied families.
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This tree belongs to the natural order Leguminosae, sub-order Papilionaceae.
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The flowers of the Papilionaceae attracted his attention early, and were the subject of his first paper on fertilisation.
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Papilionaceae; it could, however, in the absence of experimental proof, be regarded only as a "working hypothesis."
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Vegetable cultivated areas increased in Belgium for several years, mainly Fabaceae species such as peas and beans.
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Living plants from the fabaceae family, which includes the shamrock, have been banned for some time.
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Lentils are a legume, seeds from a family of plants called fabaceae, which also includes peanuts and chickpeas.