ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Paddie Stool. See Paddock Stool. 
Paddock Chese. ‘The asparagus. This name occurs in an ancient 
list of jDlants in MS. Bib. Soc. Antiq. 101, f. 89.’ Hal. Wr. This is a 
wrong identification ; no doubt a Lycoperdon (probably L. Bovista, L. ) 
is intended. Cfr. Paddock Stool and Frog Cheese, of which the 
name is an equivalent. 
Paddock Pipes, or Paddock’s Pipes. (1) Various species of Equise- 
tum. — With. ed. iv. {E. palustre, L.); Cumb. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 8 ; Scotl. 
Jamieson; Moray, El. M. {E. limosum-, L.}. Prior, p. 172, who con- 
fines the name to E. limosum. 
(2) Hippuris vidgaris, L. — Cumb. 
Paddock Stool. A toad-stool. Ger. Park. — Cumb. (E. D. S. Gloss. 
C. 8), where all non-edible fungi are so called ; E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord ; 
North, Hal. Wr. ; Nhamp. Nth. Gloss. ; Scotl. Jamieson; Invernessh., 
where fairies are supposed to sit on them (see Pixie Stool). Prior, 
p. 172 (Boletus, Agaricus, &c. ). ‘The ill-favoured and deliquescent 
species, as well as the large Polypori and Boleti, are called Paddie or 
Paddock Stools, or Tade Stools, and are believed to be pre-eminently 
virulent in their qualities.’ Bot. E. Bord., p. 272. Paddock is a 
north-country name for the toad ; and, according to Prior, toad-stools 
have received their name from their resemblance to a stool, and a 
popular belief that toads sit upon them ; but stool is an old name for 
excrement ; and ‘ the ancient herbalists conceived that these plants 
were the excrements of animals’ — (Science Gossip, 1865, p. 258) — an 
idea also conveyed in the name Lycoperdon. 
Paddock’s Spindle. Orchis mascvla, L. — Perthsli. 
Paddow Pipe. (1) Various species of Equisetum. — Bailey’s Diet. 
E. Bord. {E. limosum, L.) Bot. E. Bord.; also called Paddie Pipes. 
Wright says, ‘ The plant Salomon’s seal,’ but this is an error. 
(2) Hippuris vulgaris, L. — With. ed. iv. Yks. Baines (Flora of 
Yorkshire). 
Padelion. Alcliemilla vulgaris, L. — Lyte. Prior, p. 172. A cor- 
ruption of the French name. ‘ The French [call it] q^ied de I yon .... 
and we in English Padelyon, after the French.’ Park. Theatr. 538. 
Padstool. A toadstool. — North, Hal. Wr. Prior, p. 172. See 
Paddock Stool. 
Paigle, or Paigles, variously spelt Pagil, Pagle, Peagle, Peggie, 
Pegle, and Pegyll. (1) Primida veris, L. — Grete Herball; Beds. 
Batchelor’s Bedfordsh. Gloss. ; Gamb. Turn. Herb. ; East, Hal. ; Ess. ; 
Herts, (also Cow Paigle); Kent (Weald of), E. D. S. Gloss. C. 3; 
lAnc. Brogd. ; Middx. (Hampstead) ; Norf. Grose ; Nhamp. Nth. 
Gloss. ; South, Eay ; Suff. (Peagle) Eay, Moor ; Yks. (Mid.) E. D. S. 
Gloss. C. 5. Prior, p. 172. ‘As yellow as a pegle’’ is a Kentish say- 
ing (E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 3), and also a Suffolk saying (Moor). Holme 
(Acad, of Armory, ii. 70) limits the name to the douWe cowslip (Park). 
Turner (Herb. pt. iii. p. 80) includes both P. veris and P. elcdior (pro- 
bably the true plant) under the name : ‘ The one is called in the West 
centre of some a Cowislip, and the other an Oxislip, and they are 
both called in Cambridgeshyre Pagles.' Gerard seems to i-estrict the 
name to the Oxlip ; ‘ The greater sort called for the most part Oxelips 
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