BULB

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A collection of fleshy scales, arranged like those of a bud, of which the bulb is a slight modification, separating spontaneously from the stem to which it belongs, and emitting roots from its base. It is usually found underground, as in the hyacinth; but sometimes upon the surface of the stem in the axils of the leaves, as in the bulbiferous lily. The old botanists used to distinguish two sorts of bulbs, the tunicated and the solid: the former is the only one to which the name is now applied; the latter is the cormus, as in crocus. [s. 185]