Jim: I LIKED your discourse on distinguishing bulbs from other similar structures. I really appreciated it. Nothing else I've read has much clarified the issue or been able to draw nice neat taxonomic lines without falsifying or ignoring something else. This helped. It does appear that people only know what they're talking about when they admit that they might not. Evolution didn't happen in order to suit us. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim McKenney" <jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com> To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:47 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Acceptable Oxalis Dylan asked "Do any other dicots have what could be called bulbs?" Offhand, I can think of several generally accepted examples and several others which are more controversial - it all really depends on your definition of bulb. But if by "bulb" you mean something like a periodically free standing structure made up of a central bit of apical meristem (the bud for