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IN a recent communication, Baker1 directed attention to the difference in size of pistillate and hermaphrodite flowers in gynodiœcious and gynomonœcious plants and suggested that the hormonal control of sex-expression might be connected with the level of auxin activity in the developing flower bud. In the course of genetical studies of gynodiœcy in members of the Labiatae, I have made some observations on the orign of this size difference in the case of Glechoma hederacea L.
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Baker, H. G., Nature, 180, 614 (1957).
Wittwer, S. H., Univ. of Missouri Coll. of Agric. Res. Bull. 371 (1943).
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PLACK, A. Sexual Dimorphism in Labiatae. Nature 180, 1218–1219 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1801218a0
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