Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 343 369 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Byssus antiquitatis Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1168. 1753 . "Habitat in aedium muris antiquissimis." RCN: 8404. Type not designated. Original material: none traced. Current name: Lepraria antiquitatis (L.) Ach. (Leprariaceae). Note: Ross & Irvine (in Taxon 16: 185. 1967) stated that the application of the name is uncertain. See Laundon (in Lichenologist 24: 340. 1992), who suggested that B. antiquitatis L. might be of mineral origin.