About Mary Letitia Green
Lived 1886 – 1978 (aged 91–92). Mary Letitia Green was a botanist and botanical collector.
Mary Letitia Sprague (née Green) (1886–1978) was a British botanist and bibliographer who worked at Kew Gardens. 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. She was an expert on Loranthaceae.
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.
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Who was Mary Letitia Green?
British botanist (1886–1978)
When was Mary Letitia Green born?
Mary Letitia Green was born in 1886 in Brecknockshire.
When did Mary Letitia Green die?
Mary Letitia Green died in 1978 in Cheltenham.
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Mary Letitia Green was a botanist and botanical collector.
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