“…According to FERRAND (1923), ocasional nondisjunction of one the seven bivalents gave rise to plants with an extra pair whereas cells with even higher numbers could arise by fragmentation at some stage. Still the haploid number remained uncertain until a number of careful mitotic and meiotic counts along with the analyses of extra chromosomes, established 7 as the correct one (STOLZE, 1925;AASE and POWERS, 1926;THOMPSON, 1926;EMME, 1927;LEWITSKY, 1929LEWITSKY, , 1931and others) and higher numbers of 8,9, or 10 being for the strains carrying B-chomosomes (EMME, 1928;DARLINGTON, 1933;HASEGAWA, 1934;POPOFF, 1939;MUNTZING, 1944,etseq. ).…”