Mary Letitia Green Explained

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]}

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.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Green, Mary Letitia . Global Plants . JSTOR . 16 September 2018 . en .
2. Sprague, Mary Letitia (Manna) (1886-1978) . Global Plants . JSTOR . 17 September 2018 . en .
3. Web site: Index Kewensis chronology . International Plant Names Index . 17 September 2018.
4. Book: Ogilvie . Marilyn Bailey . Harvey . Joy Dorothy . Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie . Joy Harvey . The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z . 2000 . Taylor & Francis . 9780415920407 . 1221 . 17 September 2018 . en.
5. Web site: Tropicos Person - Green, Mary Letitia (later Sprague) . www.tropicos.org . 17 September 2018.
6. Book: Linnaeus . Carolus . Hort . Arthur . The "Critica Botanica" of Linnaeus . 1938 . .