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His ifTue was a fon born in 16331 ^^ripcr of the manor 

 of Erickftad, and who by a tranfpofition of names was 

 caHed Ingemar Bengefton : he was the grandfather of 

 l^inne. His fon, Nicholas Linnxus, the father of 

 Linne, was born in 1764, and being the firft learned 

 man of his family, took his name from a Tilia or 

 linden tree which grew in the neighbourhood of his 

 native place, and from which fome other branches of 

 his family had derived theirs. He was paftor of the 

 village where he refided, and married Chriftiana Bro- 

 derfon the daughter of his predecelTor in office. By her 

 he had ilTiie Charles their firft born ; Anna Maria who 

 married Gabriel Hoek redor of Wireftadt; Sophia 

 Juliana who married John Collin redor of Ryfby: 

 Samuel who was bprn in 171 8, and married the daughr 

 ter of Nicholas Ofander prebendary of Makaryd, and 

 who fucceeded his father in the redory and prebendary 



of Stenbrohult, He has feveral daughters. 



The retirerrcnt and leifure which his fun£lion 

 afforded him, and probably the flendcrnefs of his income, 

 had given the father a great attachment to husbandry and 

 gardening: and hence might fpring the bud, which 

 afterwards branched out into that extenfive and never- 

 fading tree of fyftem produced by the fon. The earlieft 

 days of Linnxus are faid to have been marked by an ex- 

 traordinary pallion for the poiTtfTion and examination of 

 flowers, of which his father's garden, according tp 

 Linnaeuj>*s own account in a letter to Baron Haller, 



