Also 6– spatling. [f. SPATTLE v.1] Spattling poppy (or campion), bladder campion. Obs. exc. arch.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. lxviii. § 4. 295. Papauer spumeum, which I haue Englished Spatling Poppie. Ibid., cxxi. § 7. 384. Spatling Campion hath a slender hoarie stalke.
1611. Cotgr., Pavot escumant, spatling Poppie, frothie Poppie.
1640. Parkinson, Theat. Bot., 263. Some with us call it Knapbottle, and others Spatling or Frothy Poppy.
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb. (1752), 324. I gathered a large handful of spatling-poppy, and held it to the cow.
1758. Mrs. Delany, Life & Corr. (1861), III. 499. Some sea-holly, and spatling poppy.
1785. Martyn, Lett. Bot., xix. (1794), 274. Spatling Poppy is not an uncommon weed among corn and in meadows.
1829. Glover’s Hist. Derby, I. 114. Silene inflata, spattling poppy, white bottle or bladder champion.
