Burlingham, Gertrude Simmons, 1872-1952.
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Gertrude Simmons Burlingham was a mycologist specializing in Lactarius and Russula. She donated her herbarium to the New York Botanical Garden. She was born in Mexico, N.Y. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1898 and earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1908. She taught biology in high schools in Binghamton, N.Y. and at Eastern District High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her field work took her to Vermont, the Pacific Coast states, Denmark and Sweden. She died in 1952 at Winter Park, Fla.
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Agaricales
Amanita
Lactarius
Lactarius
Lepiota
Russula
Russulaceae
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