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raised most of the subgenera of Fries to generic rank. He 
must, therefore, be cited as the author of a large share of the 
generic names used in Saccardo’s Sylloge. ‘Twenty-four of 
these names are to be found in the appended available list. 
It is here, by the way, that Znocyde was first recognized as a 
genus, and not in Karsten’s Hattsvampar (1879), as is stated 
in a recent monograph. Inthe Znchridion Fungorum (1886) 
Quélet again reduced many of these genera to subgenera, 
proposing new generic names for the groups in which he ar- 
ranged them. This was utterly unjustifiable. Luckily only 
five of these new names find their way to the available list. 
The others are typonyms. 
Gillet in 1876-8 (Les Champignons de France) followed 
Quélet’s earlier work in treating the Friesian subgenera as of 
genericrank. He also raised two subgenera proposed by W. 
G. Smith to genera and made one new one. 
Karsten in 1879 (Hattsvampar) was the first seriously to 
question the Friesian classification, which, based as it was on 
a comparatively few characters, had often resulted in the 
bringing into one group of many very dissimilar species. The 
breaking up of these incongruous aggregations necessitated 
the employment of many new generic names. Thirty of 
them are here classed as available. Karsten’s work, like all 
that had gone before, was mostly based on obvious macro- 
scopic characters, but it must be recognized as having been 
done very well indeed. 
Patouillard in his various writings (mostly in the Hyméno- 
myceétes d Europe, 1887) has proposed a number of new genera, 
of which eight are here included as available. This number 
would be considerably increased if the limits of the family 
were extended in conformity with his ideas. He is the first 
to utilize minute anatomical characters to any extent, in the 
separation of genera. 
In 1889 two important works appeared. Schroeter in the 
Kryptogamen Flora von Schlesien gives us five new avail- 
ablenames. Fayodin the Hstocre Naturelle des Agaricines 
(Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. VII. 9: 181-411) adds twenty-five more. 
