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a Protestant minister in Stenbrohult, beginning al- 

 most in infancy the study of plants, which finally won 

 for him his place as founder of the "Linnsean Sys- 

 tem" in botany. He made a visit to Lapland, lived a 

 few years in the Netherlands, at work upon his fa- 

 vorite study, becoming a professor of medicine, and 

 later of botany. 



He underwent much deprivation, and poverty, but 

 his talents and devotion were finally rewarded by the 

 king, who bestowed upon him the honor of Knight- 

 hood and gave him positions of trust suitable to his 

 attainments in science. At one time he visited Paris, 

 where he met the Jussieus, acknowledging without 

 envy the superiority of the new system of botany 

 which was destined to supersede his own. 



His principal works are: "Systema naturae," 

 1735; "Fundamenta botanica," 1737; "Genera plan- 

 tarum," 1737; "Flora lapponica," 1737; "Philoso- 

 phia botanica," 1751; "Species plantarum," 1753, 

 etc. 



Sex in plants was the foundation of the Linnaean 

 System, but it has long been replaced by the natural 

 system of the De CondoUes and the De Jussieus, which 

 made like structure and affinity of parts the foun- 

 dation of classification. 



Linnaea, or Twin-flower. 



Elizabeth Christina von Linne was the only one 

 of her father's five children who inherited any of his 

 genius. "She was the first naturalist to observe the 

 inflammability of exhalations of certain plants and 

 the electric sparks to be drawn from the nasturtium. 

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