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tained much of this tenninolog) in our recognition "I subset tions and 

 series in the present work. In Camarophyllus and Hygrocybe his sub 

 headings were more of the nature ol headings in a text ke\ . Fayod 

 ( 1889 ) used the following groupings under the genus Hygrocybe: ( 

 cineae, Puniceae, Conicae, and Mycenae. I le did do! assign infrag< nei u 

 status to them, but in our classification the) would be .it the & 

 level. Bataille's (1910) classification is the clearest For infrag< neru 

 nomenclature which we have seen to date. He recognized Hygropho- 

 rus: subgenera Limacium, Camarophyllus, and Hygrocybe. Limacium 

 is divided into sections as follows: Candidi and Colorati. Section Can- 

 didi is subdivided into Ligati and Eburnei. Section Colorati is divided 

 into subsections Pudorini, Aurei, Discoidei, Olivaceoumbrini, and 

 Tephroleuci. Subsection Pudorini is divided into series Exannulati and 

 Subannulati. 



The subgenus Camarophyllus is divided by Bataille Into sub 

 tions Rut ili, Virginei, Fornicati, Ovini, Cinerei, Subradiati, and Caprini. 

 Bataille did not specifically designate the rank of his infrageneric cate- 

 gories here, but from the way the text is set up it is reasonable to infer 

 that Camarophyllus contained only one section and that the categories 

 mentioned above were at the next lowest level which we interpret to 

 be subsections. 



In Hygrocybe he recognized section Laeti with subsections Psitta- 

 cini, Coccinei, Squamulosi, Campanulati (with two series. Nigre- 

 scentcs and Laeticolores) , and Convexi. Section Tristes included sub- 

 section Inolentes divided into series Viscosi and Sicci, and subsection 

 Olidi. 



Lange (1940) recognized Limacium as a genus divided into sec- 

 tions (apparently) Peronata and Nudipedia with the latter further 

 divided into Tephroleuca and Laeticoloria. Camarophyllus he divided 

 into Subturbinata and Emarginati. Hygpocybe he divided into Emargi- 

 nato-subliberae and Adnato-decurrentes — names clearl) intended to be 

 divisions of a text key. 



Smith and Hesler (1939) divided Hygrophorus into subgenus 

 Limacium which was further divided into section Eu-Hygrophorus and 

 Clitocyboides. Eu-Hygrophorus was further divided into subsections 

 Albidi, Lutei 3 Fuliginei, and Brunnei. Section Clitocyboides contained 

 subsections Pallid \ Fulvoincarnati, Erubescentes, and Atrocinerei. 



The same authors ( 1942) established the subgenus Pseudohygro- 

 phorus containing a single species. Subgenus Camarophyllus was 

 divided into section Microspore which was further divided into subsec- 

 tions Impoliti, Odorati, Hymenocephali, and Pelliculosi. Section l.u- 

 CamarophylluswaLS further divided into subsections Viscidi, Subaquosi, 



