Mary Letitia Green
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]
References
- ^ "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.
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