Margaretta Riley

Margaretta Riley (also known as Meta, née Hopper; May 4, 1804 – July 16, 1899), was an English botanist. She studied ferns cultivation and was the first British pteridologist of her sex. Riley presented to the Botanical Society of London "a complete dried collection of every species and variety of fern represented in the British flora".

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