eryngium

[Lat. eryngion; Gr. erynggion, dim in. of Latin erynge Greek eryngge =the eryngo (q. v.).] Bot .: Eryngo. A genus of Umbelliferous plants, family Saniculide. There is an involucre in many leaves; the fruit is ovate, clothed with chaffy scales or bristles. About 100 species are known, most of them from South America. [ERYNGO.] ě-ryń-gō, ě-rin-gō, s. [ERYNGIUM.] 1. Bot .: The genus Eryngium. The Sea Eryngo is Eryngium maritimum , the Field Eryngo E. campes 2. Phar .: [ERYNGO-ROOT.] (1) The breaking out upon the skin of vesicles, tris p( Bentham . ) pustules, ., ultimately becoming crusts or scabs. In some cases fungi have been found in the center of the vesicle or other morbid growth. (2). The exanthemata thus produced, as the vesicles in small-pox or the rash in scarlet fever. "Unripe fruits are apt to occasion foul eruptions on the skin."- Arbuthnot . 2. Geol.: An outburst of fluid lava mixed with stones, scoriæ, dust, ., from a volcanic crater or other vent. Sir Charles Lyell computes that about 2.000 such eruptions (variously located) may occur in the course of a century, or an average of twenty every year. [VOLCANO.]