1889. Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol. iv. p. 148:
"These were covered with spinifex, or porcupine-grass, the leaves of which are needle-pointed."
1896. R. Tate, `Horne Expedition in Central Australia,' Botany, p. 119:
"In the Larapintine Region . . . a species of Triodia (`porcupine grass' or, incorrectly, `spinifex' of explorers and residents) dominates sand ground and the sterile slopes and tops of the sandstone table-lands."
<hw>Porcupine-grass Ant</hw>, <i>n</i>. popular name given to <i>Hypoclinea flavipes</i>, Kirby, an ant making its nest round the root of the Porcupine grass (<i>Triodia pungens</i>), and often covering the leaves of the tussock with tunnels of sandgrains fastened together by resinous material derived from the surface of the leaves.
1896. Baldwin Spencer, `Home Expedition in Central Australia.'
"Watching the Porcupine-grass ants, which are very small and black bodies with yellowish feet, I saw them constantly running in and out of these chambers, and on opening the latter found that they were always built over two or more Coccidae attached to the leaf of the grass."
<hw>Porcupine-Parrot</hw>, <i>n</i>. See quotation.
1896. G. A. Keartland, `Report of the Horne Expedition in Central Australia,' Part ii. Zoology, <i>Aves</i>, p. 107:
"Geopsittacus occidentalis. Western Ground Parrakeet. . . .
As they frequent the dense porcupine grass, in which they
hide during the day, a good dog is necessary to find them.
They are locally known as the `Porcupine Parrot.'"