Atropa

(at'ro-pah.) [Gr. atropos, inflexible.] (Bot.) A genus of European plants, O. Solan acer. The Deadly Nightshade (A. Belladonna) has bell-shaped flowers, dusky on the outside and purplish within. It bears berries of a fine black color, highly poisonous, and from which is extracted the medicine called Belladonna, which is narcotic and diaphoretic. It is also employed by oculists to produce dilatation of the pupil, which'it does on being dropped into the eye. [s. 58]