“…Murrill also contributed significantly to the study of Russula when he described 110 species, mostly from Florida (Looney 2014); others also focused on Florida in the earlyto mid-twentieth century (Beardslee 1934;Burlingham 1939;Murrill 1938Murrill , 1941Murrill , 1943Murrill , 1945aMurrill , 1945bMurrill , 1946. Russula diversity has also been examined in North Carolina (Beardslee 1918), the southern Appalachians (Bills and Miller 1984;Bills 1984Bills , 1985Bills , 1989, and northeastern Canada (Jennings 1936;Homola and Shaffer 1975). The genus has been covered more broadly in the East by (Peck 1906), Burlingham (1921Burlingham ( , 1924Burlingham ( , 1939Burlingham ( , 1944, Singer (1942), and Fatto (2002.…”