Russula vinacea Burl. 1915

Russula vinacea Burlingham, sp. nov
Pileus convex, then depressed in the center, up to 10 cm. broad; surface vinaceous, becoming more or less maize-yellow on the disk, viscid when moist, with separable pellicle except on the disk, pruinose when young; margin arched for some time, becoming striatetuberculate when mature: context rather firm, red next to the cuticle, otherwise white, acrid; lamellae white, then more or less rust-colored, especially where bruised, sometimes a few short ones intermixed, acute and forking at the inner ends, rounded and broad at the outer ends, interveined, rather close; stipe white or with a few rust-colored spots, equal, firm, then spongy, 4.5-6 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. thick: spores white, elliptic, strongly echinulate, 7-8.7 X 8-10 a*.
Type collected in wet woods of oak and chestnut at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, August 3, 1912, Gertrude S. Burlingham 85-1912 (herb. Burlingham). DisTRTBUTiON : I/Ong Island, Staten Island, and New Jersey.