Mr. Henbane deemed it probable that he had been tempted in some wood by the large black brilliant berries of the atropa Belladonna, or Deadly Nightshade; and lamented that he had not been by, to administer an infallible antidote.
"Crotchet-Castle"
Peacock, Thomas Love
It bears the botanical name of atropa, being so called from one of the classic Fates,-she who held the shears to cut the thread of human life:- "Clotho velum retinet, Lachesis net, et atropos occit."
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie