Margaret Jane Benson
English botanist and mycologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Margaret Jane Benson was an English botanist specialising in paleobotany, and one of the first female members of the Linnean Society of London. Most of her career was spent as the head of the Department of Botany at Royal Holloway College, University of London from 1893 to 1922. In 1927, a botanical laboratory was dedicated in her name. She travelled extensively with Ethel Sargant, collecting specimens, laboratory equipment, and meeting other botanists around the world. Her students included Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Theodora Lisle Prankerd, Nesta Ferguson, and Emily Mary Berridge.
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- Telangium Scotti, a new Species of Telangium (Calymmatotheca) showing Structure (59)
- Root Parasitism in Exocarpus (with comparative Notes on the Haustoria of Thesium) (1910) (30)
- The Morphology of the Ovule and Female Flower of Juglans regia and of a few allied Genera (1909) (28)
- XI. Contributions to the Embryology of the Amentiferæ.—Part I. (1893) (24)
- I.—Sphærostoma ovale (Conostoma ovale et intermedium, Williamson), a Lower Carboniferous Ovule from Pettycur, Fifeshire, Scotland (23)
- Miadesmia membranacea, Bertrand; a New Palaeozoic Lycopod with a Seed-Like Structure (20)
- Mazocarpon or the Structural Sigillariostrobus (1918) (19)
- Contribution to the embryology of the Amentiferae, part I (16)
- On the Contents of the Pollen Chamber of a Specimen of Lagenostoma ovoides (1908) (13)
- III. Contributions to the Embryology of the Amentiferæ.—Part II. Carpinus Betulus (1906) (13)
- THE ORIGIN OF FLOWERING PLANTS. (1904) (12)
- Heterotheca Grievii the Microsporange of Heterangium Grievii (1922) (10)
- Observations on a Lumbered Area in Surrey from 1917 to 1925 (1926) (10)
- The Fructification, Calathiops Bernhardti, n. sp. (1935) (8)
- THE SPORANGIOPHORE‐A UNIT OF STRUCTURE IN THE PTERIDOPHYTA. (1908) (7)
- New Observations on Botryopteris antiqua, Kidston With Plates LXXXI-LXXXIIand three Figures in the Text (1911) (5)
- Cordaites Felicis, sp. nov., a Cordaitean Leaf from the Lower Coal Measures of England (4)
- The Roots and Habit of Heterangium Grievii (1933) (3)
- NOTE ON THE ‘SPORES’ OF SCHUETZIA BENNIEANA (KIDSTON) (1934) (3)
- THE NEW EVIDENCE OF ISOSPORY IN PALAEOZOIC SEED PLANTS (1935) (3)
- A NEW LYCOPODIACEOUS SEED‐LIKE ORGAN. (1902) (3)
- THE GROUPING OF VASCULAR PLANTS (1921) (3)
- THE FRUCTIFICATION OF LYGINODENDRON OLDHAMIUM (1902) (2)
- Cantheliophorus, Bassler: New Records of Sigillariostrobus (Mazocarpon) (2)
- BOTRYCHIUM LUNARIA WITH TWO FERTILE LOBES (1909) (0)
- NOTE ON A NUMERICAL SEQUENCE OF PLANT FAMILIES (1921) (0)
- Miadesmia membranacea, Bertrand; A New Paloeozoic Lycopod with a Seed-Like Structure (1907) (0)
- REFORMS IN CELL-NOMENCLATURE. (1905) (0)
- Striped cucumber beetle (1941) (0)
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