ocr: Designer rocks Asi if painted by a mad hand, a slate outcrop is. encrusted with lichens in the Sierra Nevada foot- hills of California (right). In west- ern Nevada the Northern Paiute name for brightly colored crustose lichens used as medicines, such as Pleopsidium oxytonum (left), translates literally as "lizard semen," alluding to the push-ups that lizards do during courtship displays. In legends of the Northwest's Interior Salish peoples, Coyote's long hair became entangled in a tree and was magically trans- formed into food, hanging from branches in thick clumps. Seen here interspersed wit ...
