triodia

It is undulating poor land of a sandstone formation, grassed with triodia and wooded with ironbark and bloodwood.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

On both sides of the creek there are stony ranges grassed with triodia and wooded with ironbark.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

Then, after coming over poor low ridges covered with triodia and wooded chiefly with tea trees for five and three-quarter miles, we reached at 2.45 a ravine and encamped.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

Walker's Table Mountain is of a sandstone formation and is covered at places with triodia.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

At 10.4 we made one mile and a quarter north-east (chiefly at some distance from the river, on the top of the high basaltic bank, which, from the want of soil, has nothing on it except triodia and stunted bloodwood-trees) to a point half a mile south of Campbell's Tower and west-south-west from a point about two miles down the river.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

Sheep or cattle will do well on it but it will not carry much stock to its acreage as it is confined at many places by ridges with triodia and only a small proportion of other grasses.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

Here we observed stunted box and bloodwood trees, and a variety of grasses, among which I observed barley, oaten, kangaroo, and triodia; at

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

Port Curtis sandalwood, bauhinia, and other small trees, and at other places by low ridges with triodia.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

I expected to find it of a sandstone formation with triodia on its surface, but on ascending the range I found that, although it had a sandstone formation, it was covered with a dark perforated basalt and at other places with rich soil and good grass.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

At 3.48 quarter of a mile south-west to the river; we observed in crossing this point patches of triodia, or more commonly called spinifex.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough