Macro photographed these tiny Eyelash fungi growing at Rod Handfield's property, when a few of us spent the day exploring his forest for fungi (and anything else that we could record, on 17 August 2012.

"Grows on wet, rotted wood, or on damp soil nearby; growing gregariously or in clusters; spring through fall; widely distributed in North America.

Fruiting Body: Cup shaped to broadly cup shaped, minute to 1.5 cm across; fertile surface ("top" or "inner" surface) scarlet red to bright orange, smooth; sterile surface ("under" or "outer" surface) brownish or pale orangish, covered with tiny dark hairs; the margin with longer, eyelash-like, dark hairs; without a stem; flesh thin and insubstantial." From www.mushroomexpert.com/scutellinia_scutellata.html