Russula humidicola Burl. 1915

Russula humidicola Burlingham, sp. nov
Pileus broadly convex, soon becoming depressed in the center, up to 6 cm. broad; stuface varying in color from salmon, reddish-salmon, and yellowishsalmon, to Morocco-red in the center, sometimes fading, viscid, with pellicle separable except on the disk, glabrous; margin drooping, soon tuberculate-striate: context thin, white, fragile, mild, without characteristic odor; lamellae white, becoming creamcolored, equal, rarely forking next to the stipe, interveined, 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 )Lt.
Type collected under oak trees and various shrubs in thoroughly moist soil at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, July 23, 1912, Gertrude S. Burlingham 20-1912 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.) .
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.