Mary Letitia Sprague (née Green) (1886–1978) was a British botanist and bibliographer who worked 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
edit- ^ "Green, Mary Letitia". Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
- ^ "Sprague, Mary Letitia (Manna) (1886-1978)". Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ "Index Kewensis chronology". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Tropicos | Person - Green, Mary Letitia (later Sprague)". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. M.L.Green.
- ^ Linnaeus, Carolus (1938). The "Critica Botanica" of Linnaeus. Translated by Hort, Arthur. Linnean Society of London.
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