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   > I took that picture as I passed it on the way up the mountain.  On the way   
   > back   
   > down I picked it but by then it had flattened out on the top and was no   
   > longer   
   > dome or button shaped.   
      
   The Amanita is not pantherina, but looks very much like Amanita   
   muscaria var. formosa.  I found a very similar ones this last weekend   
   in Sierra Nevada. Will post pictures soon.   
      
   The first one is Gomphus floccosus/bonarii (hard to say). Then you   
   have something very similar to B. edulis.   
      
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