Most of those broken off scales look like as though they could have been cut, so I was about to ask what your severing technique was. But your last two pics (especially the last) clearly show you have been carefully breaking them off. If you still have any of those "mutilated" bulbs, it would be interesting to see a cut through (vertical) cross-section of the basal stem. Martagons are clearly triangular shaped, even when rather small.
