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Peter Simon Pallas
Peter Simon Pallas Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia between 1767 and 1810. Life and work Peter Simon Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas. He studied with private tutors and took an interest in natural history, later attending the University of Halle and the University of Göttingen. In 1760, he moved to the University of Leiden and passed his doctor's degree at the age of 19. Pallas travelled throughout the Netherlands and to London, improving his medical and surgical knowledge. He then settled at The Hague, and his new system of animal classification was praised by Georges Cuvier. Pallas wrote ''Miscellanea Zoologica'' (1766), which included descriptions of several vertebrates new to science which he had discovered in the Dutch museum collections. A planned voyage to southern Africa and the East Indies fell through when his father reca ...
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Fabaceae
The Fabaceae or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants.
Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published: ....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill. Vicia L.; ... When the Papilionaceae are regarded as a family distinct from the remainder of the Leguminosae, the name Papilionaceae is conserved against Leguminosae." English pronunciations are as follows: , and .
commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large and agriculturally important of

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Glycyrrhiza
''Glycyrrhiza'' is a genus of about 20 accepted species in the legume family (Fabaceae), with a subcosmopolitan distribution in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. The genus is best known for liquorice (British English; licorice in American English), ''G. glabra'', a species native to Eurasia and North Africa, from which most confectionery liquorice is produced. Species Species include: *'' Glycyrrhiza acanthocarpa'' *'' Glycyrrhiza aspera'' *'' Glycyrrhiza astragalina'' *'' Glycyrrhiza bucharica'' *''Glycyrrhiza echinata'' *'' Glycyrrhiza eglandulosa'' *''Glycyrrhiza foetida'' *''Glycyrrhiza foetidissima'' *''Glycyrrhiza glabra'' – liquorice, licorice *'' Glycyrrhiza gontscharovii'' *''Glycyrrhiza iconica'' *''Glycyrrhiza inflata'' *''Glycyrrhiza korshinskyi'' *''Glycyrrhiza lepidota'' – American licorice *''Glycyrrhiza pallidiflora'' *''Glycyrrhiza squamulosa'' *''Glycyrrhiza triphylla'' *''Glycyrrhiza uralensis'' *''Glycyrrhiza yunnanensis ''Glycyrrhiza yunnane ...
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