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countries; his father was named Ingemarsson after his father Ingemar Bengtsson. When Nils was admitted to Lund University, he had to take on a family name. He adopted the Latinate name Linnæus after a giant lime tree, lind in Swedish, that grew on the family homestead. This name was spelled with the æ ligature. When Carl was born, he was named Carl Linnæus, with his father's family

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