ANTHODIUM

(Gr, icydes, a flower, or icyOiuhr.s, full of flowers.) The head of flowers of a thistle or a daisy; it is the same thing as capitulum, and is applicable to all cases where a number of small flowers or florets are combined in a head, and surrounded by a common involucrum. An anthodium is nothing but a depre ed spike. [s. 71]