Russula ventricosipes Peck 1902

Russula ventricosipes Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 29: 70. 1902
Pileus thin, broadly convex, nearly plane or slightly depressed in the center, 5-7 cm. broad; surface varying in color from tawny-yellow to pale-alutaceous, becoming umber in drying, glabrous, viscid when wet; margin inrolled and even, thin, striate: context white; lamellae white or whitish, becoming umber in drying, equal, forking next to the stipe, slightly sinuate, adnate, narrow, close, thin; stipe whitish above, reddish toward the pointed base, ventricose, firm, solid or subspongy within, nearly glabrous, 5-7 cm. long, 2.5 cm. thick: spores broadly elliptic, nearly smooth, 6-8 m in diameter.
Type locality: South Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Habitat: Sandy soil under or near pine trees. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.