Sentence:  A great many of the scapes have furnished examples of "<WSD>recrudescence</WSD>," a few flowers having been produced amongst the ripening capsules; but fresh flower-stalks have also continued to shoot up from the root, and at the time I write (Oct. 4) I see there is one very pretty bunch of flowers upon a last year's seedling plant. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike.