> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 355](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258833) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3363-1) LSID 3363-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13423692) QID Q13423692 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Green, Mary Letitia \['Manna', a.k.a. Mrs. Thomas Archibald Sprague\] (1886-1978), Welsh botanist, bibliographer and botanical artist, born 27 Nov 1886 in Breconshire, Wales, graduated Univ. College, Aberystwyth 1912 and went to Kew, where she compiled supplements to *Index Kewensis* and what is now known as *Index Londinensis*, F.L.S. 1925, Asst. in the Kew Herb. 1929, retired 1945, died 15 Jan 1978 in Cheltenham (Gloucs.), England. **Abbreviated name**: *M.L. Green* \[standard form in IPNI: *M.L.Green*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]. – Some mss. material, incl. an oral history, at [[Collection HU|HU]]. #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 241; Barnhart 2: 80; Bossert p. 151; Desmond ed. 2: 647 (as "Sprague"); FNA ser. 2(10): 211; Hortus 3: 1194; IH 2: 237; Kew 2: 494; MW p. 143; Portr. 1: 64 (index), 3: 502; SO p. 25 (index); Strid p. 136, ed. 2: 187; TL-2/3, 2/4 (indices, but latter leads to 2/3!); Tucker 3: 125; Zander ed. 17: 950. #### Biofile - Anon., Intl. address book botanists: 183. 1931. - Meikle, R.D., 1978. Taxon 27: 439. #### Composite works - (1) Miss Green & T.A. Sprague (1877-1958) compiled suppls. 7, 8 and 9 (1929-1938) of the *Index Kew*., the last suppl. also acknowledging \[Veronica\] Mabel Irene Skan (1902-x) & Sabine Wilson (x-1959). Miss Green (then Mrs. T.A. Sprague), Skan & Wilson compiled suppl. 10... 1947, see TL-2/2, nr. 3218. - (2) Nomenclature proposals by Miss Green were included in T.A. Sprague, *Nom. Prop. Brit. Bot.*... 1929, see TL-2/5, nr. 12.651. - (3) Miss Green revised the English transl. by Sir Arthur Hort (1864-1935) of *The "Critica botanica" of Linnaeus*... 1938, see TL-2/3, nr. 4718. - (4) Mrs. T.A. Sprague took the minutes of the Nomenclature Sessions at the Stockholm Congr. (1950), the basis of the 1952 report by Joseph Lanjouw (1902-1984). ### Publications ##### n.37.048. Note **Title** *Note* on *anomalous bulbils* in a *lily*... Ann. Bot.... 1914. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1914 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. \[355\]-358. *Copies*: K, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 28(110): 355-358. 1914. ##### n.37.049. Standard-species **Title** *Standard-species* of *nomina conservanda*... \[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew\] s.d. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 30 Jun 1926 (date of transmittal letter by Kew Dir. on BM copy, Kew copy date-stamped 27 Sep 1926), cover-t.p., p. 11686-1–11686-70 \[i.e. p. 1-63 \[=text\], 64-70 \[=index\]\]. *Copies*: BM, HH (n.v.), K, MO (n.v.), Nicolson (photocopy of K copy), NY (n.v.), US. *Note*: (1) The work is mimeogr. (2) Basis of the truncated version appearing in "Proposals by British Botanists" published in 1929, specifically M.L. Green's Proposal iii (p. 97-100), circulated before and during the Cambridge Congr. (*fide* Stafleu, Taxon 5: 87. 1956). ##### n.37.050. Rules **Title** *Rules* of *botanical nomenclature*... (Reprinted from Empire Forestry Journal) 1931. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1931 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-19. *Copies*: FAS, HH (n.v.), K, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Empire Forestry J. 10(1): 54-72. 1931.