- A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct
stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by
an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species,
collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks
of trees, etc., and a few in running water. - A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of
the Scottish border.