THE NOMENCLATURAL STATUS OF RETICULARIA (MYXOMYCETES)

Reticularia Bull. was validly published in 1787 or 1788 already, by me ans of a descriptio generico-specifica, not in (1790 or) 1791 as has b een generally assumed. It is therefore an earlier homonym of Reticular ia Baumg. (lichens), a name validly published in 1790 but not on the p age from which it is usually cited. Reticularia alba Bull., the single included element and original type of Reticularia Bull., is a later t axonomic synonym of Mucilago crustacea, hence Reticularia Bull. is a l ater synonym of Mucilago.