sneezeweedn.
1. U.S. The plant Helenium autumnale, or other species of the same genus.
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helenium1789
American sneezewort1845
sneezeweed1856
1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (ed. 2) 224 Helenium autumnale, L. (Sneeze-weed).
1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 130 In the Sunflower..it consists of two thin scales..; in the Sneeze~weed, of about five very thin scales.
1885 J. M. Coulter Bot. Rocky Mt. Region 196.
2. Australian. (See quots.)The two quotations refer to the same plant.
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1877 F. von Müller Introd. Bot. Teachings 58 The Sneeze-weed (Cotula or Centipeda Cunninghamii). A dwarf, erect,..odorous herb;..can be converted into snuff.
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 195 Myriogyne minuta,..‘Sneezeweed’ of Southern New South Wales.
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