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On languishing leaves of Pleurothallis rusci folia Sw.. 

 in deep woods, valley of the Rio Piarnasta, Panama. 1500 meters 

 altitude. E. P. Killip, February 25. 1918. 



Guignardia caricis Dearness & House,-^ nom. nov. 



Laestadia caricis Dearness & House. X. Y. State Mus. Bui. 

 205: 52. 19 19. 



On dead leaves of Carex strictior Dewey ( C . s t r i c t a 

 Auth.) northern Herkimer county. H. D. House, 1917 (type). 



Guignardia depressa (Peck) Dearness & House, comb. nov. 



Sphaerella depressa Peck. N. Y. State Mus. Rep't. 2>i : M- 1880 

 Laestadia depressa Berl. & Vogl. ; Sacc. Syll. Add. 1-40: 61. 1886 

 Mycosphaerella depressa House. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 233-34: 

 27. 1922 



On dead stems of Lactuca sp. Karner. Albany county. C. H. 

 Peck (type). 



Guignardia smilacinae Dearness & House, nom. nov. 



Laestadia smilacinae Dearness & House, X. Y. State AIus. Bui. 

 205: 53. 1919 



On dead leaves of Vagnera stellata (L.) Morong. 

 Karner, x\lbany county. C. H. Peck (type). 



Mycosphaerella conigena (Peck) House 

 On cone scales of Thuja o c c i d e n t a 1 i s L. Newcomb. 

 Essex county. H. D. House, June 22. 1923. Doctor Peck collected 

 the tvpe of this in the Helderberg mountains in 1879. and also made 

 collections of it at Elizabethtown and Newcomb. 



Mycosphaerella Pontederiae (Peck) House 

 Newcomb, Essex county, on dead leaves of Sarracenia 

 p u r p u r ea L. H. D. House, June 25, 1920. On the same leaves 

 is Discosia artocreas (Tode) Fr. 



21 The prior generic name Guignardia Viala & Ravaz. is used by 

 Traverso, Lindau, Schroeter, Shear and others, in place of Laestadia 

 Auersw, 1869, "ot Lessing. In addition to the three species here transferred, 

 the state herbarium contains the following species of this genus collected in 

 New York : 



Guignardia Aesculi ( Peck) V. B. Stewart 



Guignardia Bidwellii (Ell.) Viala & Ravaz 



Guignardia carpinea ( Fr. ) Schroeter 



Guignardia epilobii (Wallr.) Lindau 



Guignardia fraxinicola ( Curt. ) Lindau 



