Russula subsordida Peck 1906

Russula subsordida Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 105: 40. 1906
Pileus firm, convex, becoming nearly plane or centrally depressed, up to 13 cm. broad* surface white, becoming smoky-brown with age, sometimes with an olive-green tint, viscid when young or wet, glabrous ; margin even : context grayishwhite, slowly changing to smokybrown when cut or broken, mild or slightly and tardily acrid ; lamellae whitish, becoming black or blackish with age or in drying, unequal, adnate, thin, close; stipe white, becoming smokybrown with age or where wounded, solid, becoming spongy within and sometimes hollow, glabrous, 2.5-3.5 cm. long, 1.2-2.5 cm. thick: spores white, globose, with scattered blunt papillae on the surface, 8 ju in diameter.
Type locality: Horicon, Wayne County, New York. Habitat: In deciduous or mixed woods. Distribution: New England to Alabataa and west to Ohio.