> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 798](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333937) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12879-1) LSID 12879-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21609342) QID Q21609342 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sprague, Mary Letitia \["Manna"\], née Green (1886-1978), British botanist, nomenclaturist and botanical bibliographer; with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, 1912-1945, from 1912-1925 as temporary technical assistant for Index kewensis and Index londinensis, from 1925 permanent assistant responsible for the Index kewensis supplements; married Thomas Archibald Sprague 1938. **Abbreviated name**: *M.L. Sprague* \[standard form in IPNI: *M.L.Sprague*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]; further material at [[Collection NMW|NMW]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Bossert p. 378; TL-2/2800, see indexes under M.L. Green. #### Biofile - Anon., Taxon 1: 36. 1952 (portrait in group), 27: 232. 1978 (d.). - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 248. 1984. - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 691. 1985. - Meikle, R.D., Taxon 27: 439. 1978 (obit.). - Morris, F.W.A., Proc. Cotteswold Natural. Field Club 37(4): 18. 1978. #### Composite works With A.S. Hitchcock, *Standard species of Linnean* \[sic\] *genera of Phanerogamae* (*1753-54*), *in* T.A. Sprague et al., eds., *Nom. Prop. Brit. Bot.* 1929, p. 111-119 (genera 501-end by M.L. Green). ### Publications ##### n.12.637. Rules of botanical nomenclature **Title** *Rules of botanical nomenclature*... Reprinted from Empire forestry Journal vol. 10. no. I. 1931 \[1933\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul 1933 (on inside cover), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-19. *Copy*: FAS. – Reprinted and to be cited from Empire Forestry Journal 10(1): 54-72. 1931 \[sic\]. – A review of botanical nomenclature 1905-1930 with notes on the "Rules" as adopted at Cambridge. *Note*: Mrs Sprague also published an interesting "Discussion on the differences in observance between zoological and botanical nomenclature" in Proc. Linn. Soc. London 156: 126-146. 1944.