Delenda
things to be erased or expunged. Delenda est Carthago is the celebrated sentence with which Cato the elder was accustomed to conclude all his speeches in the Roman Senate. His hatred of Carthage arose from a jealousy DELHI of its flourishing state, and the consequent danger to Rome, and eventually led to its destruction in 146 в. c.
DELESSERIA (named after M. Benjamin Delessert, a French patron of botany), a genus of florideous algæ, the typical one of the sub-order Delesserieæ.
The species have a flat membranaceous rose-colored frond. The one best known is. D. sanguinea. Its fruit ripens in winter.
DELESSERIEÆ, a sub-order of algæ, order Ceramiacea (rose-tangles). The frond is cellular, the coccidia inclosing closely-packed oblong granules arising from the base, within a spherical cellular envelope which finally bursts; tetraspores in definite heaps or collected in sporophylls.