Mary Letitia Green

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

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.