[obol] 'funny' common names

[Douglas Kirkpatrick]

Sounds to me like they were smoking dried lichens (or something.)

Doug Kirkpatrick
Medford 

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Subject: [obol] 'funny' common names

Hi all,
In the spirit of the conversation about the double-entendre common bird
names, here's a few common names of lichens of the Northwest.  I swear that
a bunch of drunk lichenologists sat around the campfire one evening and made
these up!

Sea tar
Bark barnacle
Seaside kidney
Punctured rock-tripe
Peppered moon
Lettuce lung
Frog pelt
Freckle pelt
Pimpled kidney
Forking bone
Laundered rag
Antlered perfume
Devil's matchstick
Waterworm
Coastal reindeer
Common Christmas-tree
Blood spattered beard
Common witch's hair

and my favorite:
Questionable rock-frog

(These are all from the Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast, Pojar and
MacKinnon)

Kyle Spinks


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