The genus Cupressocrinus is very characteristic of the Devonian formation in Germany. In some parts of the Eifel it may be called common; and yet in England, though equally characteristic of the same formation, and though it has been found in several places, yet it is considered so rare that it is hardly mentioned by many of the writers on the Devonian fossils. In Morris's Catalogue the localities given are Plymouth and (somewhat strangely) Collumpton, where there is no Devonian limestone. For these reasons it may be worth recording that there is one small and somewhat insignificant quarry between Newton and Teignmouth, where fossils of this genus occur in abundance, though unfortunately generally in the state of casts.