“…As another manifestation of the same thing one might consider the fact that the three or four lowest axils on the stem, which in diploids practically always carry well developed branches, very often in tetraploids give origin to no branches whatsoever. Th-is brings to mind the common observation that tetraploids have fewer tillers than diploids (ct. SCHWANITZ and SCHWANITZ, 1950;PIRSCHLE, 1942;MVNTZING, 1951;etc. ).…”