History of botany scope of the subject as technology has opened up new techniques and areas of study. Modern molecular systematics, for example, entails the principles and techniques of taxonomy, molecular biology, computer science and more. Within botany there are a number of sub-disciplines that focus on particular plant groups, each with their own range of related studies (anatomy, morphology etc.). Included here are: phycology (algae), pteridology (ferns), bryology (mosses and liverworts) and palaeobotany (fossil plants) and their histories are treated elsewhere (see side bar). To this list can be added mycology, the study of fungi, which were once treated as plants, but
The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species is thus a triple chance of the maximum of fertility...There is thus the clearest proof that these complex arrangements have the important end of securing both a more abundant and more vigorous offspring.” Observations and experiments still continue today to further the understanding of this phenomenon instigated by Darwin in this original and seminal work. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species is a book by Charles Darwin first published in 1877. It is the fifth of his six books devoted solely to the study