Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Sorrel, the Sheep's

SORREL, the Sheep's, or Dock, Rumex Acetosella, L. is also a native perennial, which grows in sandy meadows, pastures, and gravel-walks: it flowers in May and June.—The stalks of this plant, which affords a wholesome food for sheep, seldom exceed 12 inches in height: it deserves, however, to be mentioned, that cows partaking of the Sheep's Dock, yield a milk tinged with blood.