> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 360](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266037) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1804-1) LSID 1804-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5325972) QID Q5325972 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Core, Earl Lemley (1902-1984), American botanist, born at Morgantown, West Virginia, educated at Morgantown High School until 1920, taught in rural schools 1920-1923, at West Virginia University 1923-1926, A.B. 1926, M.A. 1928, Ph.D. Columbia University 1936, teacher from 1928 at West Virginia University until 1972, Chairman Dept. of Biol. 1948-1966, botanist of the Colombian Cinchona Mission at Bogotá 1943-1945, after retirement wrote the history of Monongalia Country, West Virginia. **Abbreviated name**: *Core* \[standard form in IPNI: *Core*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection WVA|WVA]]; further material at [[Collection BUT|BUT]], [[Collection DUKE|DUKE]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection U|U]], [[Collection US|US]]. #### Note WVA has the E.L. Core Botanical slide coll. of 21.000 colour slides. – Taxon 37(3): 798. 1988. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 380 (b. 20 Jan 1902, Core, W. Va.); BFM p. 279; BL 1: (13), 221; IH 2: 139; Kew 1: 617-618; NAF ser. 2. 5: 235; Roon p. 29. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men women sci., Biol. 1977: 160-161; The Plant Press, Dept. Bot., Smithsonian Inst. 12/(58): \[1\]. 31 Dec 1984 (note on work); Herbarium News, Missouri Bot. Gard. 5(1/2): 5. 1985; Castanea 50(1): 1-6. 1985 (biogr., portr., list of publ.). - Bartholomew, E.A., Castanea 50(2): 64-66. 1985 ("A remembrance"). - Brown, M.L., Castanea 50(2): 70. 1985 (recollections). - Clarkson, R.B., Taxon 34(2): 391. 1985 (obit., b. 20 Jan 1902, d. 8 Dec 1984). - Cooperrider, T.S., Castanea 50(2): 67-68. 1985 ("Earl L. Cove: a recollection and note of appreciation"). - Core, E.L., Castanea 27: 178-190. 1962 ("A noteworthy collection of personal letters"). - Correll, D.S. and M.C. Johnston, Man. vasc. pl. Texas 1771. 1970. - Faire, John E., III, Castanea 50(2): 61-63. 1985 ("Reflections on the man"). - Frodin, D.G., Guide Standard floras world no. 583. 1984. - Hunt Institution, Biogr. dict. bot. portr. coll. 83. 1972. - McNeill, E.M., Castanea 50(2): 69. 1985 (note on his death). - Stieber, M.T., Huntia 4(3): 154. 1982 (collect. field notes at US (Cinchona project)). - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 77. 1981 (Core mentioned by author, C.R. Bull.). #### Composite works *Plant relations on Spruce Knob* (by Core) *in* J.L. Tilton et al., W. Virg. Geol. Survey, Pendleton County p. 311-313. 1927. – BL 1: 221. #### Outside our period - (1) *Flora of West Virginia* part *1*: 1-274. 1952, *2*: 275-570. 1953 (with P.D. Strausbaugh), *3*: 571-860. 1958 (id.), *4*: 861-1075. 1964 (id.), *5*: i-xxxi. 1964 (id.). - (2) *Woody plants in winter*... (the Boxwood Press), Pittsburgh p. viii, 218, 1959. ### Publications ##### n.27.545. phytogeography of West Virginia **Title** Some aspects of the *phytogeography of West Virginia*... Separately printed without change of paging from Torreya... 1932. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 10 Jun 1932 (date on cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., p. 65-71. *Copies*: MO, U. -Reprinted and to be cited from Torreya 32: 65-71. 1932. ##### n.27.546. type localities of **Title** The *type localities of* some plants first described from *West Virginia*... Separately printed without change of paging from Torreya... 1936. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 29 Feb 1936 (date on p. 7), p. 7-13. *Copy*: U. – Reprinted and to be cited from Torreya 36: 7-13. 1936. ##### n.27.547. The American species of Scleria **Title** *The American species of Scleria*... Separately printed without change of pagination from Brittonia... 1936. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Amer. spec. Scleria*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 6 Apr 1936 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. 1-105, \[i-ii, vita\], *pl. 1-3. Copies*: L, NY, U. – Issued as Brittonia 2(1). 1936. ##### n.27.548. botanical exploration **Title** The *botanical exploration* of *West Virginia*... Morgantown (West Virginia Academy of Science) 1936. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1936, p. 46-64. *Copies*: HH, MO. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. W. Virginia Acad. Sci. 10: 46-64. 1936. – Also issued as Contr. Herb. W. Virginia Univ. no. 1. 1936.