Enquiry into Plants

[Translation of the legible fragments of the mirrored text]:
...but have been added to supplement my brevity; for since I speak too much in these, or for the sake of brevity, as the writings themselves—as they admit—are small; they may elude or fill out the diction, especially in works of diction, or omit them entirely to append notions... the same present obedience to the mind of Horace, that saying:

P.S. A few years ago, the "Illustrations of the Author" were brought to light; the genera and species designated therein, after the interval of time since they were issued, vary in useful nomenclature, which [due] to study on Theophrastus for a long time... the printer carved.