wolfs-bane

wolfs-bane: a plant: ăcŏnītum: nor do hapless gatherers pluck wolfs-bane unawares, nec miseros fallunt aconita legentes, Virg. G. 2, 152: used also by Pliny: perh. the Latin word includes more than one species: *aconitum napellus, Bot.: v. Smith's Lat. Dict.: aconitum.