Syringa vulgaris ultimately for the plants, was Pietro Andrea Mattioli, as one can tell from a unique copy of Tradescant's plant list in his Lambeth garden, an adjunct of his "Musaeum Tradescantianum"; it was printed, though probably not published, in 1634: it lists "Lilac Matthioli". That Tradescant's "lilac of Mattioli's" was a white one is shown by Elias Ashmole's manuscript list, "Trees found in Mrs Tredescants Ground when it came into my possession" (1662): "Syringa alba". In the American colonies, lilacs were introduced in the 18th century. Peter Collinson, F.R.S., wrote to the Pennsylvania gardener and botanist John Bartram, proposing to send
Gracillaria albicapitata Gracillaria albicapitata Gracillaria albicapitata is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the islands of Hokkaidō and Honshū in Japan and the Russian Far East. The wingspan is 9.8-12.5 mm. The larvae feed on "Fraxinus lanuginosa", "Fraxinus mandshurica", "Syringa amurensis", "Syringa reticulata" and "Syringa vulgaris". They mine the leaves of their host plant. Young larvae mine directly into the middle layer of the parenchymal tissue of the leaf or leaflet. The mine made by the larvae of the first three instars is irregularly large blotchy or wide linear, and inter-parenchymal, with a few weak wrinkles on both