Found growing in Pennsylvana, United States.  Growing on the soil in a mulched path with soil and wood chips under conifers but on the soil.  At first I was thinking it resemble Aleuria aurantia but when when i find that species it grows on clay in disturbed areas and it is much larger.   A friend put it under her microscope and measured the spores at 10 X 8 and very warted.  J- and they did not react with melzer's reagent.  There we only had Nordic Macromycetes and using the key it keyed out to Octospora sp.  but there was no moss.  

So looking at it with another friend under a different microscope we tried additional stains.  I measured the spores at 13.5 X 9.  looking at several of them it appeared that they had spines on the spores that went into a slime layer that surrounded the spore.  It also appeared that inside some of the spores there was a figure 8 or prehaps 2 oil drops or septa.  Not certain.  We also observed that some of the spores had protrusions on each end.  There the book he had was the Fungi of Switzerland and there was a Aleuria that had similar looking spores but it looked different and also differed by having a stalk.  Could not come up with any  better ideas. 

I will post spore photos shortly. 


John