Mary Letitia (Green) Sprague (1886–1978) was a British botanist and bibliographer at Kew Gardens.[1][2] In 1938 she married Scottish botanist Thomas Archibald Sprague, the Deputy Keeper of the Kew Herbarium, and together they compiled several supplements to the Index Kewensis.[3] She was an expert on Loranthaceae.[4][5] The standard author abbreviation M.L.Green is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

She revised Arthur Fenton Hort's translation of Linnaeus' Critica Botanica, for an edition published by the Linnean Society of London in 1938, with an Introduction by Arthur William Hill.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Green, Mary Letitia". Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Sprague, Mary Letitia (Manna) (1886-1978)". Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Index Kewensis chronology". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  4. ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. p. 1221. ISBN 9780415920407. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Tropicos | Person - Green, Mary Letitia (later Sprague)". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  M.L.Green.
  7. ^ Linnaeus, Carolus (1938). The "Critica Botanica" of Linnaeus. Translated by Hort, Arthur. Linnean Society of London.


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