Yucca
Adams needle; a liliaceous center of which rises a large panicle of to arborescence, crowned by a circle of Evergreen shrubs, their stem tending linear, lanceolate, rigid leaves, from the snow-white, whitish-green, or cream its segments without nectaries; stamens center of which rises a large panicle of colored flowers. Perianth bell-shaped, clavate, style wanting, fruit capsular, YUCCA It hexagonal, with three cells and numerous flat seeds. From the hotter parts of America. Y. gloriosa, common Adam's needle, has an upright stem, a panicle of flowers three feet long, and a total height in America of 10 or 12 feet, though the cultivated plant in Great Britain is very much smaller. is a native of the United States from Carolina to Mexico and Texas. Its fruit also a fiber well adapted for paper making. Y. angustifolia and Y. filamentosa silk grass, has panicles of pendulous have also fibers which may be similarly used. The last-named species, called the cream-colored flowers. It grows in Britused. The last-named species, called the ish gardens, blossoming in the autumn. ogy, one of the periods into which the past history of the globe may be divided. ish gardens, blossoming in the autumn.
YUKON There are four yugas: The Satya Yuga, containing 1,728,000 years; the Treta Yuga, 1,296,000; the Dwapara Yuga, 864,000 years; and the Kali Yuga, now in progress, began about 3094 B. c., and which will extend to 432,000 years.
Horace Hayman Wilson points out that these numbers originate in the descending arithmetical progressions of 4, 3, 2, 1, according to the notions of diminish ing virtue in several ages applied to a cycle of 12,000 divine years, each equal to 360 years of mortals; and 12,000 X 360 is 4,320,000, the periods of the four yugas added together.