Three species, namely, Erythrodontium julaceum, Pterigynandrum decolor and Entodon flavescens under family Entodontaceae are described with illustrations and a short note on each.

Barbella rufifolia (Thwait & Mitt.) Broth. (Family Meteoriaceae) and Pterobryopsis auriculata Dix. (Family Pterobryaceae) of Isobryales are described as new records for Bangaldesh.

Objective: The study was done to standardize the morphological data of kidney in relation to the age of person. Materials and methods: The study was done on kidneys collected from 50 postmortem cases, age from 11 years to 80 years, during the period of July 2005 to December 2005 in the department of Anatomy, M.A.G. Osmani Medical College, Sylhet. Kidneys were collected with legal permissions from the authority in charge of the morgue of Forensic Medicine department of M.A.G. Osmani Medical College, Sylhet. Among the cases 32 were male and 18 female. The kidneys were fixed in 10% formosaline. The weight, length, breadth and thickness were recorded. Result: Data were collected in 3 groups, lower age (11- 25 years), middle age (26-40 years) and higher age (41-80 years) groups. The mean weights of the kidney in 3 groups were found as 88.53 gm, 95.25 gm and 91.62 gm respectively. Similarly the mean lengths were recorded as 8.12 cm, 9.12 cm and 8.73 cm. the mean breadth were 4.46 cm, 4.31 cm and 3.58 cm. the mean thickness in these three groups were 1.72 cm, 2.19 cm and 1.48 cm respectively. Conclusion: It can be concluded that the gross values of different dimensions of the kidney, except the breadth, increases up to the age of 40 years. With further advance of age they are gradually decreased. The breadth was found greater in lower age group. Key words: Morphology of kidney, age   doi: 10.3329/bja.v7i1.3012 Bangladesh Journal of Anatomy January 2009, Vol. 7 No. 1 pp. 19-21

A taxonomic account of eight species of pleurocarpous mosses from different localities of Bangladesh has been made. These are new addition to the pleurocarpous moss flora reported earlier. IntroductionIn previous reports (Khatun and Hadiuzzaman 1994, 1995, 2003, 2004a,b, 2005a,b, 2006a 42 species under 25 genera of pleurocarpous mosses were described. Recently, Banu-Fattah (2005) reported Distichophyllum schmidtii Broth., a species of pleurocarpous moss, which is rare in Bangladesh and was collected only by Sinclair (1955). In this paper altogether eight species under six genera of the family Sematophyllaceae under the order Hypnobryales have been reported. The species are Glossadelphus zollingeri, Taxithelium nepalense, Acanthorrhynchium papillatum, Trichosteleum boschii, T. stissophyllum, Aptychella delicata, A. borii, and Acroporium baviense. The present study reveals that among the above mentioned species Taxithelium nepalense is quite common and has been collected from 53 districts of Bangladesh, which is abundant in rainy season and mostly found on bark of trees. Tixier (1967) in his checklist mentioned only Taxithelium nepalense from the family Sematophyllaceae. Gangulee (1980) described all the above mentioned species in his "Mosses of Eastern India and adjacent regions" but he did not give any information on their occurrence in Bangladesh. He only mentioned about the species T. nepalense of Tixier's collections (from Chittagong, Bangladesh). In the present paper detailed taxonomic descriptions, illustrations and distributions along with keys to the genera and species and a short note on each taxon are provided. Except T. nepalense all the above mentioned species are new records for Bangladesh.

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