Crossword-Solution: ATROPA 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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.

Probably the animal instincts, which have become so obtuse by civilization, that children in England eat the berries of the deadly nightshade (_Atropa belladonna_) without suspicion, were in the early uncivilized state much more keen.

Then I felt that her awful gaze was fixed upon me, and a voice, low and sonorous as the tones of an organ, broke on my ear with an intense pathos, unutterably solemn:-- Daughter of earth, I am the spirit of the purple Nightshade, the Atropa Belladonna of the south,--the scent of whose dusky chalice is the fume of bitterness; the taste of whose dark fruit is death.

The winds blow in the same direction, and at the same periods: the Euphorbia mauritanica, the Atropa frutescens, and the arborescent Sonchus, vegetate there in the loose sands, and afford, as in Africa, food for camels.

The yellow deadly nightshade or _Atropa Belladonna lutea_ was found about 1850 in the Black Forest in Germany in a single spot, and has since been multiplied by seeds.