Hieracium
the hawkweeds, a genus of plants, order Asteraceæ. They are perennial herbs, with leaves alternate, entire, or toothed; involucre more or less imbricated, ovoid, manyflowered; H. Canadense, H. venosum, and H. paniculatum are Amerscales very unequal . H. Can ican species. H. murorum, the goldenlungwort, or wall-hawkweed, is a native of Europe.
HIERAPOLIS (-rap'ō-lis), a city of Phrygia, near the junction of the rivers Lycus and Meander, celebrated for its warm springs, and its cave Plutonium, from which arose a mephitic vapor which was poisonous to all but the priests of Cybele. A Christian Church was early established here, and St. Paul mentions it (Col. iv:12, 13). The city is now desolate, but its ruins still exhibit many traces of its ancient splendor.
Also a city of Syria, called Bambyce by the carly natives, one of the chief seats of the worship of Astarte or Ashtoreth.