FINGER-AND-TOE, CLUB ROOT or ANBURY, a destructive plant-disease due to an organism known botanically as Plasmodio phora Brassicae, which attacks cabbages, turnips, radishes and other cultivated and wild members of the family Cruciferae. It is one of the so-called slime-fungi (Myxomycetes or Mycetozoa). The presence of the disease is indicated by nodules or warty out growths on the root, which sometimes becomes much swollen and ultimately rots, emitting an unpleasant smell. The disease is contracted from spores present in the soil, which give rise to motile germs which enter the root. The parasite develops within the living cells of the plant, forming a glairy mass of living mate rial known as the plasmodium, the form of which alters from time to time. The cells which have been attacked increase enormously in size and the disease spreads from cell to cell. Ultimately the plasmodium becomes resolved into numerous minute round spores which, on the decay of the root, are set free in the soil. The disease is more frequent in acid soils. A good dressing of lime tons per acre) is thus useful in reducing or stopping the disease. It is important that diseased plants should be burned and not fed to animals as the spores can pass in a living state into the manure.