Obs. Also bollien, bolline, bolyn. [Only in Lyte: some kind of erroneous formation on BOLL.] = BOLL sb.1 3.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, I. xxxvii. 55. The seede [of Pimpernell] is contayned in small round littell bolliens or knappes. Ibid., I. lxxiii. 109. The stalkes … vpon the toppes whereof groweth small round knappes or bollines. Ibid., V. lxxviii. 645. The rounde bollens, or imbossed heades of the right Squilla.
