Peck CH. 1913. Report of the State Botanist 1912. Bulletin of the New York State Museum 167: 31.

Russula ballouii n. sp.

Plate IX, figures 1-4

Pileus thin, broadly convex, nearly plane or slightly depressed in the center, yellow when moist, grayish yellow when the moisture has escaped, the pale brick-red cuticle cracking into minute scales everywhere except in the center; lamellae thin, narrow, close, adnate or subdecurrent, pale yellow, becoming pruinose or dusted by the white spores; stem firm, equal or slightly tapering downward, the surface colored and adorned like the pileus; spores subglobose, 8-10 microns.

Pileus 2-3 cm broad; stem 2-3 cm long, 8-10 mm thick.

Woods, specially under poplar trees. Near Bullshead, Richmond co. October. W. H. Ballou.

Pileus tenuis, late convexus, subplanus vel in centro leviter depressus, humidus luteus, siccus griseo-luteus, ubique, disco excepto, squamis minutis lateritiis ornatus; lamellae tenues, angustae, confertae, adnatae vel subdecurrentes, pallidae vel pruinosae; stipes firmus, aequaiis vel leviter sursum crassus, pileo similis ornatus et coloratus; sporae subglobosae, 8-10 microns.