A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE RUSSULAE 
OF LONG ISLAND 
By GERTRUDE S. BURLINGHAM 
Eastern District High School, Brooklyn 
Field work on the genus Russula on Long Island has been 
limited to a region on the northern shore reaching from Cold Spring 
Harbor to Port Jefferson. The first collections of which we have 
published record were made by the state botanist, Dr. Charles H. 
Peck, near Port Jefferson. Ав a result of this work he described 
three new species of Russula in the State Museum Bulletin, number 
50, published in 1897. In August, 1902, Dr. Peck, in company 
with Professor F. S. Earle, continued the search for fleshy fungi 
in the vicinity of Port Jefferson and Smithtown. From these 
collections two new species of Russula were described by Dr. Peck 
the following year in the sixty-seventh Bulletin of the State 
Museum. In 1909 Professor C. Н. Kauffman described one new 
species, Russula sphagnophila, from Cold Spring Harbor. In the 
summer of 1912 I spent July and the early part of August at 
Cold Spring Harbor studying the Russulae and Lactariae of the 
locality. Although the season was unusually dry, I was able to 
secure 23 different species of Russula, four of which were un- - 
described. 
In all, thirty-six species of Russula have been identified from 
Long Island, of which fourteen are European species and twenty- 
two American species. Nine of the latter have their type locality 
near Port Jefferson or Cold Spring Harbor. The European species 
reported from this region have a distribution in the United States 
both to the north and the south of Long Island. Of the American 
species eight, R. albida Peck, R. compacta Peck, R. crustosa Peck, 
R. flavida Frost, R. Mariae Peck, К. subvelutina Peck, R. uncialis 
Peck, R. variata Bann. & Peck, have a distribution from New 
England to Virginia, North Carolina, or Alabama. On the other 
hand, the distribution of three species, К. albella Peck, R. Earlei 
