1. Results. Scattered results about countably2 generated ideals in C(X) are established in [2] and [4] : Op is countably generated if and only if pEX and p has a countable base of neighborhoods; Op is both prime and countably generated if and only if Mp is principal, and if and only if pEX and p is isolated; no lower prime ideal is countably generated. We generalize these as follows: if Mp is c...