Blond amanita?

From a distance of ten or fifteen metres these looked like Agaricus

mushrooms. Most Agaricus are edible; I do not pick them though I

always like to look at them. When I got close to these 18-cm wide

mushrooms, I saw not Agaricus but the scabby spots of Amanita muscaria

and the fleshy ring around the stipe. However, there was almost no

yellow colour in the tops. A. muscaria is red in most of North

America, but around these parts they are usually yellow. If these

really are A. muscaria, I don't know why they are blond -- maybe the

poor summer that we have been having; maybe something in the soil.