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, Callitris quadrivalvis of Mount Atlas in North Africa, allied to the "arbor vitro", Thuja occidentalis or articulata. The Romans prized it highly, and called it citrum; when Roman husbands upbraided ladies with extravagance in pearls, they retorted the men's fondness for thyine tables (Pliny, H. N. 13:15).