Originally published at Lughnasa 1998. Henbane, whose botanical name is Hyoscyamus niger, is a member of the Solanaceae order of plants which includes such innocuous members as the humble potato and tomato but also highly poisonous and notorious ones such as belladonna, mandrake and the daturas.
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. English: The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Massacre de la Saint-BarthÃ©lemy in French) was a wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots (French Protestants).
Barts hemoglobin (bart) [ Barts, nickname of St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London)] Abnormal hemoglobin occurring in a form of thalassemia in which the affected person carries two copies of the alpha thalassemic globin gene from each parent. This condition causes erythroblastosis fetalis.