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Britten had an excellent knowledge of the flora of the Eastern Cape and was an avid collector, with over 7000 specimens to her credit.
- ↑ Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. pp. 180–181. ISBN 9781135963439 . Retrieved 17 September 2018.
She collected extensively and her plant collections are in a number of museums in South Africa, but she published little. She was highly knowledgeable about Eastern Cape flora.
- ↑ E. Figueiredo; G.F. Smith (31 December 2021). "Women in the first three centuries of formal botany in southern Africa". Blumea . 66 (3): 275–307. doi:10.3767/BLUMEA.2021.66.03.10. ISSN 0006-5196. Wikidata Q112627895.
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. L.L.Britten.
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