230 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VorumME 9 
ochraceous with age or in drying, equal, not forking, adnate or slightly rounded behind, sub- 
_ ventricose, subdistant, broad; stipe white, solid or spongy within, 1.7-2.5 cm. long, 4-6 mm. 
thick: spores yellowish, globose, slightly echinulate, 7 X 8.5 u. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Suffolk County, New York. 
Hasitat: Naked ground under pines in woods. 
Distrrsution: New York, New Jersey, and Missouri. 
ILLustTRATIONS: Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 122: pl. 110, f. 7-14. 
94, Russula puellaris Fries, Epicr. Myc. 363. 1838. 
Russulina puellaris Schrét. Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 3!: 551. 1889. 
Pileus thin, convex, becoming plane or slightly depressed in the center, 2-4 cm. broad; 
surface slate-violet to livid-umber, sometimes yellowish, the center darker livid or brown, 
deep-purple in a variety with center almost black, viscid when wet, with separable pellicle, 
glabrous; margin striate-tuberculate: context tinged like the surface next to the pellicle, other- 
wise white, mild, without special odor; lamellae white, becoming pale-yellow, equal, narrowed 
toward the stipe, adnate, close; stipe white or with yellowish stains, especially when old, 
fragile, stuffed, becoming hollow, 2-4 cm. long, 0.8-1 em. thick, tapering upward; spores 
pale-yellow, subglobose, echinulate, 6-8 yw in diameter, 
TYPE LOcALITy: Europe. 
Haxrrat: On the ground in moist places in mixed or coniferous woods. 
DIsTRIBUTION: From Maine and Connecticut west to Ohio; also in Europe. 
Iniustrations: Bres. Fungi Trid. gl. 64; Cooke, Brit. Fungi #1. 1065; Ricken, Blatterp. 
Deutschl. pl. 17, f. 2. 
95. Russula humidicola Burlingham, sp. nov. 
Pileus broadly convex, soon becoming depressed in the center, up to 6 cm. broad; surface 
varying in color from salmon, reddish-salmon, and yellowish-salmon, to Morocco-red in the 
center, sometimes fading, viscid, with pellicle separable except on the disk, glabrous; margin 
drooping, soon ttuberculate-striate: context thin, white, fragile, mild, without characteristic 
odor; lamellae white, becoming cream-colored, equal, rarely forking next to the stipe, inter- 
veined, acute, narrow and nearly free at the inner ends, broad and rounded at the outer, close, 
thin, pruinose; stipe white, nearly equal, spongy, then hollow, 3-5 cm. long, 5-10 mm. thick: 
spores maize-yellow, globose to elliptic, 5-6 X 7 u. 
Type collected under oak trees and various shrubs in thoroughly moist soil at Cold Spring 
aaa Long Island, New York, July 23, 1912, Gertrude S. Burlingham 20-1912 (herb. N. Y. Bot. 
ard.). 
DistRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
96. Russula sphagnophila C. H. Kauffman, Rep. Mich. Acad. Sci. 
11: 86. 1909. 
Pileus convex, umbonate, at length depressed in the center, up to 4.5 em. broad; surface 
purplish-red or rosy-red on the disk surrounded with olive-brown, pale-olive-brown on the 
margin, viscid when wet, glabrous; margin slightly striate: context red next to the surface, 
otherwise white, mild, without special odor; lamellae white, then pale-ochraceous, forked 
here and there, narrowed toward both ends, adnate-decurrent, narrow, rather close; stipe rose- 
colored, usually ventricose, spongy-stuffed, then hollow, rivulose, uneven, very fragile, 4-5 cm. 
long, 0.7-1.2 cm. thick: spores cream-colored, globose, echinulate, 6-7 » in diameter. 
TypE LocaLiry: Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. 
Hasirat: On sphagnum in swamps. 
DIsTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
97. Russula Blackfordae Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 139: 43. 
1910. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, broadly convex or nearly plane, about 2.5 cm. broad; surface whitish or 
pale-gray on the margin and brown in the center, viscid when moist, the pellicle separable; 
margin striate: context white, taste mild; lamellae pale-yellow or cream-colored, equal, not 
