TASTE

is the function of special sense-organs situated mainly in the tongue. The mucous membrane of the tongue has on it-a great number of little projections, or papille, which are of three kinds—jiliform, scattered over the whole of the superior surface of the tongue, comparatively long projections, with several fine filaments at their free ends; fungiform, chiefly present towards the point, and at the sides of the tongue, rounded mushroom-like projections; and circumvallate, about ten or twelve in number, situated at the back of the tongue, arranged in a V pointing backwards, which, instead of being actual projections, are simply little areas of the mucous membrane separated. off by little circular trenches, in the inner walls of which are situated the éaste-bulbs. JIK (42° 6’ N., 24° 26’ E.), town, on be a EH. Rumelia, Bulgaria. Pop.