"Spider" wrote

Try googling on "orange peel fungus". It is a fungus associated with bare
ground - clay especially. If it's not that, is it possible you could post
a pic so we could get a better idea?

Thanks Spider
The bare clay ground fits sure enough.
The stuff I'm seeing looks like the bits in the bottom right of this
pictu
http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/na...ts.asp?pic=332
although it's very flat to the ground.
There's masses of it, but none is larger than 12mm diameter and it is all
flat with no curling or cupping.
Maybe that means it's a different species altogether!
Does this fly in on the wind, or are the spores coming from something in the
ground like my compost?

Phil