diff --git a/numpydoc/docscrape.py b/numpydoc/docscrape.py
index 9e306aea..01276757 100644
--- a/numpydoc/docscrape.py
+++ b/numpydoc/docscrape.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def __init__(self, data):
         Parameters
         ----------
         data : str
-           String with lines separated by '\n'.
+           String with lines separated by '\\n'.
 
         """
         if isinstance(data, list):