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Ridiculously viscous, to the point it was hard to hold on to. Slime seemed to be orange and left and orange film on fingers. Taste & smell not distinctive. Deciduous trees only, beech, oak, hickory, black cherry, and elm primarily.

Small brown jelly fungi was growing on Crataegus branch.
Basidiospores hyaline, allantoid measured
*(11.8) 12.1 - 13.4 (14.2) × (5.6) 5.8 - 6.38 (6.4) µm
Q = (1.9) 2 - 2.2 (2.4) ; N = 12
Me = 12.7 × 6 µm ; Qe = 2.1
Basidia 4-sterigmate, longitudinally 4-septate.
Hyphae without clamps.

HRL2605

Pileus 21-51 mm, stipe 64-102 x 5-9 mm at apex, 8-14 mm at base. Odour farinaceous.

Spores 7-9 x 6-8 µm, Q = 1.15, isodiametric, 5-6 angled.
Basidia 25-35 x 10-11 µm, 4-spored, clamped.
Cheilos and pleuros absent
Pileipellis a cutis, hyphae 6-10 µm, not incrusted, clamped, not pigmented, with a very thin gelatinous layer visible in places, terminal hyphae cylindrical.
Subpellis distinct, hyphae 8-25 µm, with a intracellular and incrusting brown pigment.
Subhymenium gelatinized.
Lamellar trama subregular, hyphae 7-15 µm, clamped.

Growing from old glass on a very wet path in a mixed forest.
Apothecia are yellow 2mm in diameter with whitish stipe around 3mm.
Asci 8-spored, croziers(-).
Paraphyses filiform with highly refracting multiguttulate VBs.
Ascospores fusiform, multiguttulate, OCI=4-5, slightly bent, measured
(17.9) 19 - 21.1 (21.4) × (3.4) 3.9 - 4.3 (4.5) µm
Q = (4.4) 4.41 - 5.2 (5.8) ; N = 22
Me = 19.8 × 4.1 µm ; Qe = 4.8

So this sequence comes up as being very close (up to 100%) to a series of Chinese sequences of Metuloidea murashkinskyi. However, this species has not been found in North America. However, S. ocraceum sequences are only 97.74% similar to this collection. It might be worth checking into Metuloidea murashkinskyi

Cap 1 cm, cream with darker spots, orange gills, stem striate, cream at apex, greenish-blue at base, spore print: pale, growing solo in the duff beside a poplar log with white pine, cedar, alder, and poplar nearby