Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - A family of acrocarpous
mosses of the order Bryales, typified by the genus Mnium, and
distinguished from the Bryaccæ, to which it was formerly
referred, by the club-shaped (instead of filiform) paraphyses of
the male organs, and by the hexagonal (not rhombic)
parenchymatous cells of the upper surface of the leaves. There
are 4 genera and 79 species, of which latter 72 belong to the
genus Mnium. They grow in moist, shady places, on the ground, on
the bark of trees, or on rocks, and are found in nearly all
parts of the world, but chiefly in temperate regions. GNU
Webster's 1913 - n. A natural family of erect mosses with club-
shaped paraphyses andgonal cells of the upper leaf surface;
sometimes treated as a subfamily of - n. family of erect mosses
with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper
leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae
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