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Chenopodiales

Chenopodiales \Chenopodiales\ n. an order which corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae.

Syn: Caryophyllales, order Caryophyllales, order Chenopodiales.

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Now, although it is probable that with the Leguminosae the tendency to sleep may have been inherited from one or a few progenitors, and possibly so in the cohorts of the Malvales and Chenopodiales, yet it is manifest that the tendency must have been acquired by the several genera in the other families, quite independently of one another.