prove matroid conditions

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can anybody please help me to prove bicircular matroid is a matroid, from the direct definition of bicircular graph, it is also called pseudoforest.

So we define the independent set to be the edge subset of $G = (V,E)$, and each connected component of $(V,X)$ for $X$ subset of E contains at most one cycle.

Anybody has some suggestions please? Thanks a lot.