Enquiry into Plants

...but have been added to supplement his remarkable brevity; for that brevity, if I may say so, is so excessive that it often eludes the grasp even of Scaliger himself, as he admits. Clarity of diction, especially in didactic works, is a virtue most of all to be desired, and the danger of obscurity must not be incurred, according to that saying of Horace:

I labor to be brief,
I become obscure.

P.S. Those into whose hands our "Illustrations" have come will notice that the genera and species designated therein vary slightly in nomenclature after the interval of time since they were issued, which is chiefly to be attributed to the study of Theophrastus having been continued for two years.