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His major works, Enquiry into Plants and On the Causes of Plants, represent the most important contributions to botanical science till the Middle Ages, almost seventeen centuries later. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early people to identify - and later domesticate - edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making it one of the oldest branches of science. Modern botany is a broad, multidisciplinary topic with contributions and insights from most other areas of science and know-how. They supported the expansion of botany as an educational subject. These gardens facilitated the academic examine of plants. Traditionally, botany has also included the examine of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the research of those three teams of organisms remaining within the sphere of curiosity of the International Botanical Congress. In 1753, Carl von Linné (Carl Linnaeus) printed his Species Plantarum, a hierarchical classification of plant species that continues to be the reference point for contemporary botanical nomenclature.