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Relief, thank you. I was interested in the comment re mycelium. The areas that have the most fungi and variety of is beneath the very old trees. there were a couple of major gales last year when seven trees came down, the old fellows stood firm the exception was a lovely old sycamore, the rest were firs and birch. I toddled down to burn side and pulled up a clump. The base does look slightly woolly but is white. It might have been more woolly but the stems were well down into the debris and I had to pull off the leaves, bits of bark and beech masts to be able to see the stems. Here is a photo hope this helps 
[attachment=0]20150904_1.JPG[/attachment] Thank you Leif and Mike for the info and ID, very grateful. I have only been collecting information and IDs on the fungi that grows on ‘my patch’ which over the years you and others have IDd in WAB days. I think, due to our wet Spring and Summer, that I am not seeing the usual fungi and most that have appeared so far are ones I have not seen before. This is probably a really silly question but does the mycelium for these just lay dormant. beneath the mycelium of the fungi that usually appears, or have the spores just blown in. I went through the google link images and the closest ones were of Cudoniella clavus, especially the slight green tinge, however the cap on the ones in compost were more bell shaped and what I could see of the stem seemed to be a very pale beige colour and a bit flakey (not the right word). none of the other images looked like it. No, as I said, they appeared some with caps and were gone within minutes of me taking the lid off the seed tray. These photos were the best I could do with the macro on my camera – I even tried taking a photo through a magnifying glass. They stopped appearing when the sunflower seed started to develop leaves, and the lid had to be removed to allow them to grow taller. This is one of the other photos I took the sunflower seed gives some idea of scale 
[attachment=0]20150519_7.JPG[/attachment] I must have had a senior moment as I did not bring one back with me. So dashed out to collect one to test spores. All gone! Sheep were obviously chomping at the grass and trampled the fungi – just shrivelled up bits left. Still at least I know it is a Inocybe. Something not had here as yet. If more appear I will re-post with description of spores. Thanks anyway
