Festuca (Triodia) irritans.
The Santalum Preissianum, the so-called native peach, with edible fruit, is found generally on the whole route.
The Spinifex so often mentioned is the Festuca (Triodia) irritans, the Spinifex of the Desert Explorers, but not of Science.
Latitude 25 degrees 46 minutes South; longitude 118 degrees East:-- Marsdenia Leichardti, the climber with edible pods and milky sap, the seeds with a downy top, called by the natives Carcular.
Latitude 26 degrees 4 minutes South; longitude 129 degrees 50 minutes East:-- The Casuarina Decaisneana, the Shea-oak or Desert Oak peculiar to Central Australia.
APPENDIX 2.
REPORT FROM R.BROUGH SMYTH, ESQUIRE, SECRETARY FOR MINES OF VICTORIA, ON THE GEOLOGICAL SPECIMENS COLLECTED ON THE EXPEDITION.
COLUMN 1: POSITION OF LOCALITY WHERE THE SPECIMEN WAS COLLECTED.
COLUMN 2: REMARKS BY MR.

JOHN FORREST ON THE SPECIMENS FORWARDED.
COLUMN 3: MR.

R.BROUGH SMYTH'S REPORT ON SPECIMENS.
Latitude 26 degrees South, Longitude 117 degrees 20 minutes East : Taken from Mount Hale on the Murchison River.

This formation extends to longitude 120 degrees East, and is very magnetic, also very heavy.

There must be a great deal of iron in it.